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aldub516:

So I recently purchased a ultimarc ultimate io interface. Naturally I should've bought the extension pack,
As I cannot reach my player 1 side. Along with the io i bought rgb buttons and other controllers. My question is, I'm new to these crimps that pop into the black sleeves. For instance, the rgb buttons have 4 wires, which all click into the black sleeve to fit over pins. I assume i can unhook the wires from the io harness, crimp it to a longer wire, add another crimp to the end, and voila extension.. Only I'm not familiar with those crimps, what they're called, or sizes.. So, if you had an io controller with the 32 input harness, how would YOU go about extending wires.. I only need to do the 1 player first 4 wires so I'm not worried about time consumption. Also I need to double up the player one up down left right to go to a 4 way.. Any clean method of splitting these wires off the harness? Or Am I looking at skinning and splicing wires bootleg style. I'm currently on my phone shopping at a hardware store which is why I cannot research these crimps on my own. Thanks for the help!

BobA:

If it already has connectors on both ends and you only need 4 wires extended cut them and splice a piece of wire between to extend their reach.  Takes a couple of crimps per wire but you only have a few to do.  You can use any crimp fastener to connect the wires or solder and heat shrink.

aldub516:

My initial plan was to indeed just snip the wire in the middle and add an extension wire, crimping each of the ends together, I just was worried about damaging the harness the came with the Io
 But in retrospect all the wires are removeable from the
Harness anyway so I can always replace a mistake. Anyone know the standard gauge wire used in these harnesses?

PL1:

Original harness is probably 24AWG stranded, but you can use 22 or 24AWG stranded. (avoid solid core wire unless you plan on soldering instead of crimping)

If you don't want to cut the original harness, you can just make an extension using a Male QD, wire, and a female QD. (Red is used for 18-22 AWG wire)



That approach requires only half the crimp points compared to using two butt-splices (below) and it's more forgiving if you mess up when fabricating the extension.   ;D




Scott

aldub516:

Sir, thank you for all the above suggestions.. How I never considered a simple male/female terminal extension is beyond me. Now I need to decide how anal I am about have the terminals showing, or if I should just go with the double ended gimmick you also suggested.. Thanks guys! Between both of u, problem solved.

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