In addition to the good advice everyone else has given, I have had problems terminating CCA cable. I get the cable in the connector and crimp it with my (relatively cheap) crimping tool and it all looks great. Then I hook up the cable tester and it fails all of the tests so I cut the ends off (because they both look to be correct) and try again. I spent over an hour trying to terminate one cable a few months back. I thought it was the crimping tool at first. I had ordered some solid aluminum cable because I need PoE for an access point. When it came, every single cable I made with it terminated correctly first time. That was when I realized how bad the CCA was and tossed it in the trash.
In addition to the good advice everyone else has given, I have had problems terminating CCA cable. I get the cable in the connector and crimp it with my (relatively cheap) crimping tool and it all looks great. Then I hook up the cable tester and it fails all of the tests so I cut the ends off (because they both look to be correct) and try again. I spent over an hour trying to terminate one cable a few months back. I thought it was the crimping tool at first. I had ordered some solid aluminum cable because I need PoE for an access point. When it came, every single cable I made with it terminated correctly first time. That was when I realized how bad the CCA was and tossed it in the trash.