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| GroovyTuesdaY:
I am looking for an alternative to daisy chaining the negative wires for my CP. If anyone knows of a product that will act as a terminal for all the negatives to connect to, could you please list it here and possibly some pictures. I have just had bad luck with daisy chaining in the past and trying to track down and the fix the culpret is just no fun. Thanks for any tips or advice :) groovy~~ |
| SirPoonga:
Daisy chaining is about it. Troubleshooting can be tought. If you want to make something better have fun. Maybe a strip of screw terminals that combine into a ground. |
| GroovyTuesdaY:
Thats kinda what i was thinking, as far as terminal solution of some sort, but im not really up to snuff on my electronics parts, so im hoping someone with some electrical experience may have a good idea. g~ :) |
| paigeoliver:
If you do a ground LOOP rather than just connecting it all to one wire, then troubleshooting is EASY. To do a ground loop, daisy chain your wire out from the encoder, to each switch, and then back into the encoder. Here is the beauty of this method. One break in the wire (or bad connection), will not take the whole mess down with it. You can open up a control panel that has the ground properly looped and cut the ground wire in some random location and it will STILL WORK. Of course cutting it in two places will kill it. |
| GroovyTuesdaY:
Let me better explain what i am thinking on this one. I kind of want to get away from using crimps on two wires joining together. I found that i was crimping too hard or not enough and getting bad connections. It was starting to really piss me off lol. So, i figure if i can just use a crimp on the end that connects to the switch negative, then it might leave me with less headaches. I hope this makes sense. :-\ I seem to have better luck with the crimping of one wire into the quick disconnect, then i do with two. groovy~ |
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