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| mgb:
--- Quote from: Unstupid on March 03, 2014, 08:35:33 pm ---I'd rather just buy a wiring harness and just use the color coded wires to determine which wire does where. --- End quote --- I use wiring harnesses also, I like using the color coding. I think color coding is easier in machines. Can you imagine if a pinball machine used tags instead of colors? But I really like the way you did it. I work in electronic systems in facilities, so I often have to mark cables but I have a Brady wire label printer for that. But what I really got out of your post is the clear shrink wrap. I've used shrink wrap many times but never knew it was available in clear. Thanks for the tip. |
| DaOld Man:
I like the labeling. I am an electrician in an aluminum rolling mill, so I understand the importance of labeling the wires. In "A Little Rage" I used a label printer that printed onto heat shrink tubing, which makes for a very neat job. This was the first build where I used it, but on my other builds I used peel and stick numbers, which work good but the labels are a lot more professional looking. When you have 2 joysticks, 12 player buttons, trackball, a few admin buttons, plus lighted buttons, the labeling helps out 7 fold when trouble shooting, especially when all the wires are the same color and you run them in a nice and neat bundle. I like your idea of using clear heat shrink over regular labels, it is probably cheaper than using the special printer and special heat shrink media. |
| Brutick:
I'm glad to hear all the positive feedback on this idea. If I could afford a heat shrink printer and the special heat shrink for it, then I would totally go that direction. I think this solution is a good compromise on cost and manual work to get the labels to fit. Doing this is certainly more time consuming than using a heat shrink printer, because the excess border around the text needs to be trimmed in order for the label to fit around the small (22AWG) wire. Regardless, I think I will be doing this on my real build :) Thanks, Brutick |
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