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| emb:
Does anyone have any recommendations on a cheap and easy to assemble harness for connecting up two control panels? I rested the control panel and admin panel on the cab to give a better description of what I am looking at. The main goal is to be able to easily remove main control panel to do any maintenance. I could see it being a pain if I hooked the admin button strip directly to ipac. It would be far more convenient to instead disconnect a harness rather than unscrew each terminal. |
| bkenobi:
Have you considered installing the Ipac in such a way that the only wire would be USB? I see you have admin buttons above the CP, but those could be taken care of with a DB9 or RJ45 connector. |
| Paul Olson:
If you plan on detaching it fairly often, cat5 would be a good choice. Otherwise, the suggested DB9 would work well. I find cat 5 to be a lot easier. |
| TopJimmyCooks:
Looks like you need 7 conductors for the 6 admin buttons. Rat shack has a 3x3 molex M/F with pins in stock usually. (in the US) It would be a pain for any more than occasional use but fine for maintenance use only. I used cat 5 to handle more frequent swaps. used a terminal block to transition to larger gauge wire suitable for attachment to the buttons. |
| bkenobi:
FWIW: He asked about connectors. RJ45 is the connector used for CAT5 cables. CAT5 is the standard used for the wire used, not the connector. If you want to install such a setup, it would be easiest to use CAT3/5/5e/6/etc (whatever you have or find cheapest) to wire up your controls and a RJ45 keystone. Best bet is probably to just use a cable you have sitting around and cut it in the middle. Wire one side to the controls (assuming the admin buttons by the monitor) and the other to the keystone (cut the RJ45 off). Wire the other end of the cable to the Ipac and plug it in to the keystone. DONE! |
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