Cat6 Faceplates - Excel vs Others

Sparx · 29 Jun 2020 at 14:05

Hey all,

So I know Excel are a well regarded brand... But in terms of their faceplates - is there really any difference between their £10 Cat6 twin faceplates, to the EssCable twin plate for £2.45 for example? What are you getting by paying an extra £7+ per plate with Excel?!

Edit: Yes have found the twin plates just over £8 each elsewhere, btu what's the ~£5 diff really for, just the brand or is there design improvements?

Excel - https://www.broadbandbuyer.com/products/36486-excel-100-433/
EssCable - https://www.broadbandbuyer.com/products/22371-esscable-ut-899042/

Thanks

Caged · 29 Jun 2020 at 14:21

The reverse of a £2.45-for-two-including-the-faceplate module will be a bare PCB clipped to the plastic faceplate, you punch it down a bit forcefully and it falls apart in your hand. If you need to re-terminate it in a couple of years it will break when trying to remove the wires.

It will be the difference between these two modues:

Armageus · 29 Jun 2020 at 14:25

The spring loaded covers also tend to break/stick a lot more easily on cheaper Euro modules

Sparx · 29 Jun 2020 at 14:28

Thanks guys, I presumed there had to be a quality/design improvement somewhere.

I'm helping a family member later in the year terminate a bunch of Cat6 ports round their new build home when it's ready. Just wanted to see if I could justify the Excel faceplate cost over the cheapo ones.

I'll stick with the Excel plates then

Caged · 29 Jun 2020 at 14:39

I buy Excel/CCS/TUK modules fairly interchangeably and the quality on all of them is good. I tend to go down the route of tool-free keystone jacks on angled faceplates for a house, I just think it looks tidier.

https://www.voltimum.co.uk/content/crabtree-keystone-data-solutions

bledd · 29 Jun 2020 at 14:43

Excel or CSS, most others are junk.

Sparx · 29 Jun 2020 at 14:48

@Caged do you have a link for the angled tool-free ones you use?

Curious as I've seen some angled ones, but never actually used them or tool-free keystones if they are much easier or not

Caged · 29 Jun 2020 at 14:59

I use these http://www.tuk.co.uk/tuk_live/product_details.php?category_id=&pId=173 and then insert them into http://www.tuk.co.uk/tuk_live/product_details.php?category_id=&pId=301 to build something that fits into a euro module. Then I use whatever range of euro module faceplates matches the existing electrical accessories - MK Logic Plus, Hager Sollysta, whatever garbage Deta stuff a new build has installed etc.