Q: When should I use ITC’s?
A: Any time you want to make a superior connection between a custom run of coaxial cable and an audio or video component and you want to do it much faster and without searching for one more tool. Managing a team of installation techs? You’re job just became a little bit easier.
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Q: Does this really make a good connection with the wire? Is it reliable?
A: You bet! The unique design creates a termination that men stronger than we have yet to pull asunder. A good mechanical contact means a good electrical contact. Besides the firm grip of the rotating teeth (see Torsional Strain Relief) that assure contact with the braided shield while holding the plug in place, the tiny spring-tensioned mechanism in the center pin hold fast to the center conductor for a very sure electronic connection.
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Q: What’s Torsional Strain Relief and why should I care?
A: All of you installation practitioners will relate to this one. You have a run of RG-6 coming up to the back of your rack. You terminate the cable, plug it into the jack and the twisted torsion of the cable nearly lifts the component right off the shelf. Imagine the strain on the oft-times fragile rear jack on the component! Torsional Strain Relief, a freewheeling set of teeth in our plug, takes care of all that by allowing you to rotate the cable without removing the connector or bending the wire which could damage impedance and therefore affect performance.
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Q: With what kind of wire will ITC’s work?
A: Darn near all of them. We have tested the top 10 brands (Ever hear about the 10/90 rule?) and despite highly varied ODs (Overall Diameters) ITC makes a good firm grip and a good firm electrical contact.
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Q: What kind of packaging do you offer?
A: ITC is a brand built for the installation community. We typically sell our connectors in 50 count bags that are equipped with a free sheet of color-coding stickers. Stay tuned for our assortment toolbox. How do you like to buy connectors? We’re interested in serving them up the way you prefer. Feedback welcomed please contact us.
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Q: Do you have a solution for color-coding the connectors for identification?
A: Yes, our 50 count bags include about 170 easy peel and stay stickers colored to industry standards for component, composite, audio, digital audio and subwoofer.
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Q: What should I do with my compression tool?
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Q: What’s your competition?
A: What? Competition? There’s nothing like ITC in the market, but hey, there are lots of plugs. We compare favorably in price with crimp and compression plugs out there. But, we’ll out perform them and you’ll get home earlier. And stay there.
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Q Is this solution patented?
A: Of course. We can’t let something like this get away from us!
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Q: What’s a compression connection?
A: It’s an obsolete way of applying a connector to the end of a wire with a two-pound hunk of steel. It was pretty good, though. The connector was compressed on to the cable in a uniform fashion to make a decent electro-mechanical connection.
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Q: What’s a crimp connection?
A: It’s the way the cats on the Geico commercial used to hook up satellite dishes to their cave-o-visions. Not so good. Crimping pretty much mashes the plug and opens you up to bad connections, even failed connections.
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Q: What’s the recommended stripping specification?
A: Using a standard rotary coax stripper (or preferably the ITC One Step Stripper!), expose about 1/4” of clean center conductor and another 1/4” immediately below of foiled dielectric. If you are using Tri or Quad shield cable, be sure to strip the outer shield(s). Pull the braid back against the jacket before applying connector. Like all connections, avoid a short by being certain there is no braid touching or near the center conductor.
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Q: Where have these been all of my life?
A: How old are you? Our sister company, AudioQuest, introduced these guys back in 2004. Their custom installation clients fell in love at first push. The rest is history. Now it’s our job to let everyone who ever set plug to cable have a piece of the action. Give us a call.