Keystone Patch Panel, 7.5-inch

A 1U keystone patch panel for our 7.5-inch rack, for one to seven jacks.

Seven, not ten. The port field is what is left between the mounting slots’ collars, and on a 190.5 mm panel that is 160.6 mm. A keystone jack’s flange recess is 19.7 mm and two of them need a real wall between them, so seven ports is a 22.9 mm pitch and eight would leave under a millimetre — one extrusion, not a wall. If you need ten in one unit, that is the 10-inch panel.

The jacks actually click in. A keystone jack’s flange bears on the front face and its latch catches the back, and that latch is dimensioned for a 1.5–1.6 mm panel — which is why jacks will not seat in most printed patch panels, whose plates are 3 mm or more. This one is recessed from the front, so it is thick everywhere it needs to be and exactly 1.6 mm at the port, with a stepped lead-in cut into that wall and open air behind for the latch to spring into. The plate is 4.6 mm everywhere else.

You supply the jacks. There are a dozen makes, each dearer than this panel, and anyone fitting a patch panel already owns the ones their cable is terminated to.

One piece. Prints rear-face down: the recesses open upward, so nothing bridges.