Chogori Male Water Resistant DMX Connector
The 8 position 8 contact (8P8C) connector is a modular connector commonly used to terminate twisted pair and multi-conductor flat cable. These connectors are commonly used for Ethernet over twisted pair, registered jacks and other telephone applications, RS-232 serial communication using the TIA/EIA-568 and Yost standards, and other applications involving unshielded twisted pair, shielded twisted pair, and multi-conductor flat cable.
An 8P8C modular connection consists of a male plug and a female jack, each with eight equally-spaced contacts. On the plug, the contacts are flat metal bars positioned parallel to the connector body. Inside the jack, the contacts are metal spring wires arranged at an angle toward the insertion interface. When the plug is mated with the jack, the contacts meet and create an electrical connection. The spring tension of the jack contacts ensures a good interface.Left: Generic 8P8C (or 8PMJ, 8-position modular jack) female connector. Right: RJ45 female connector (with key)8 pin RJ45 female connector (jack).
Although commonly referred to as RJ45 in the context of Ethernet and category 5 cables, this is incorrect in the context of a generic 8P8C connector.[10][11][12] A telephone-system-standard RJ45 plug has a key which excludes insertion in an un-keyed 8P8C socket.[13] The FCC Registered Jack (RJ) program specified a different mechanical interface and wiring scheme than TIA/EIA-568-B for RJ45S. TIA/EIA-568-B is often used for modular connectors used in Ethernet and telephone applications. Generic 8P8C modular connectors are similar to those used for the FCC RJ45 variants, although the RJ45S jack is not compatible with 8P8C modular connectors.
The original RJ45S jack mates with a keyed 8P2C modular plug,[14][15] and has pins 4 and 5 (the middle positions) wired for the ring and tip conductors of a single telephone line and pins 7 and 8 shorting a programming resistor. It was intended for high speed modems, and is obsolete.
Telephone installers who wired RJ45S modem jacks or RJ61X telephone jacks were familiar with the pin assignments of the standard. However, the standard un-keyed modular connectors became ubiquitous for computer networking, and informally inherited the name RJ45. RJ45S uses a keyed variety of the 8P body, meaning it has an extra tab that a common modular connector cannot mate with