Schlage Electronics 472745 - Quick Connect MOLEX Cable and Pigtail for RC and MT Series Readers

The 472745 is a MOLEX quick connect cable and pigtail that lands the wiring between a Schlage RC Series or MT Series reader and the field wiring. The reader end plugs into the MOLEX connector rather than being spliced, so the reader can be swapped without cutting conductors. It's an installation accessory, not a reader and not a controller, so you still need the reader itself and the panel it reports to.

Two lengths are offered, 10 feet and 25 feet. Pick the 25 foot version when the reader is on the secure-side wall and the panel or junction is at the far end of a corridor or up in a ceiling; 10 feet covers a reader wired back to a box in the same opening. Measure the actual pull path, not the straight-line distance, before you choose.

Same cable either way. Schlage RC and MT Series readers come in Wiegand and RS-485 versions, and the 472745 is the quick connect harness for that reader family regardless of which signaling the reader uses. What changes between Wiegand and RS-485 is how you land the conductors at the panel end, not the reader-side MOLEX connection.

If the existing reader was installed with a MOLEX pigtail and you're putting back an RC or MT Series reader, the harness in the wall can usually stay and you only need the reader. Order the 472745 when the reader is new to the opening, when the old reader was hard-spliced rather than plug-connected, or when the existing pigtail was cut short during the first install. Buying a spare is common on multi-door retrofits so a damaged harness doesn't stop the job.

Service time is the reason. With the MOLEX quick connect, a failed or upgraded reader unplugs and the replacement plugs in, so a maintenance tech isn't stripping and re-landing conductors in a wall box on a live opening. That matters most where readers get swapped as technology changes, which is the case the RC and MT Series are built around, since they're multi-technology and meant to migrate from one credential type to the next. On a facility standardizing hundreds of doors, plug-connected readers keep every future swap identical.

Both. The application is the RC and MT Series reader lines together, so one part number covers a site running RC readers at some openings and MT multi-technology readers at others. That's useful for an MRO or institutional buyer standardizing a spare-parts bin across a mixed reader population instead of stocking a separate harness per reader line.

The 472745 is sold as its own part, as an installation accessory for the RC and MT Series. Treat it as a separate line on the order and specify 10 foot or 25 foot at the time you order, since the two lengths are the only variables on the part.