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alternatives to daisy chaining negative wires....?
paigeoliver:
Oh, in that case you can just connect all your resulting ground wires together to something conductive, and just run one wire from that to your encoder.
For example. Take an old cast off extension cord, cut yourself a six or 8 inch section, and then strip off all the plastic so you just have a section of wire. Take a small piece of wood, and affix said wire with a pair of screws so it is stretched out full length. Then you can solder all your grounds there (or twist them on if you want to be ghetto), and then run one wire from there to your encoder.
But that is actually more work, and more headaches than properly using quick disconnects.
An alternate strategy is to use a combination of splice/solder and quick disconnects. Where each disconnect only has one wire going in, but that wire has a wire soldered on right below it.
Heck, half the time I don't even use quick disconnects on my grounds, I will often just solder my entire ground loop (which is largely unlikely to EVER have to be altered), and only use the disconnects on the inputs.
microwrx:
I have no idea where you would get one but on the phone systems I work on the ground terminal is just like a regular screw terminal block but it is all metal instead of plastic so as you connect each wire to it's own terminal and screw them down they all become connected. Like I said, no idea where you'd get one though.
microwrx:
Actually, thinking about my last post.... You could just buy a regular plastic terminal block, run all your wires from the buttons to their own terminal on one side of the block and then daisy chain all the terminal points on the other side of the block together. Although it'll have the same effect as normal daisy chaining with crimps you're using the screw terminals instead.
I might even try that myself.
Minwah:
How about get some solder disconnects rather than the crimp type? Or the crimp type which don't have the coloured insulation - you could crimp and then solder these to ensure a good connection.
I just wired my IPAC to some Molex connectors, and crimpted + soldered the molex pins to make sure of a good solid connection :)
Oldskool:
Here's a pic of my setup.