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WTFPWND:

best advice I can give is to solder it 1st, which is even easier if you leave them all together on the strip.  Then after you have this long strip with wire soldered to each one, cut them apart and crimp away with a pair of needlenose pliars.

SirPeale:

I think perhaps we need to hear the words from The Master.

http://www.dameon.net/BBBB/crimping.html

bdsjake:

I've given up, decided to look into using rj45 jacks, like "doc" on his modular panel.  Frustrating evening tryiing to get the crimp right and then shove it in the molex far enough.  Had a keystone jack lying around from a previous trip to RS and had it wired in less than 5 minutes!

thanks for all the suggestions though!

Doc-:


--- Quote from: bdsjake on July 12, 2004, 10:39:47 pm ---I've given up, decided to look into using rj45 jacks, like "doc" on his modular panel.  

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Yes,
  I had a similar experience - I bought a single molex just to wire up the trackball and found it so frustrating that I ended up cutting the wires and crimping it together instead.

  I'm sure Molex is a great system if you have the right tool - but the RJ45's seem easier to wire and also quick connect once you are done.

Doc

ChadTower:

I'm working on a design based on Doc's rj45 interface too... mine for a multivector unit.  I'm definitely going to enclose the panels, though, with an rj45 socket on both the panel and the cabinet so you can use any short patch cable you have lying around.

Doc, when you did this, did you give any thought to a separate jack for every panel you may build?  I'm considering a 1 or 2 jack set for every individual panel and wiring them to the ipac in parallel, for the sake of nobrainer panel swapping.  I'm envisioning drunk inlaws looking at the jack interface you used and not having a clue as to how it works.  It would probably suit them better if I simply had PANEL 1 - STAR WARS and then a proper jack or two,  a PANEL 2 - SPACE DUEL/ASTEROIDS, etc.

What do you think?  Would that be too much parallel wiring to be practical/reliable?  With a vector cabinet I'm only going to have so many panels I can build so the truly modular approach isn't really necessary.

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