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Wiring Block
crashdmj:
Im a major newb when it comes to wiring etc. What is the point of a wiring block? Is it to make things neater inside your cab?
REBIRTH:
I had two reasons to use wiring block(s) for my cab.
1) I have 3 control panels hooked up to an I-Pac/Opti-Pac at all times (the panels rotate) - so the I needed a way to wire 3 or 4 buttons to the same input on the I-Pac. The I-Pac terminal only can fit 2 wires at a time (3 if you really squeeze it in there). So I use wiring blocks to go from 3/4 wires down to 1 and that 1 into the I-Pac
2) to make it neater. The inards of my cab looks like hell, and I did things incredibly neat. Without some wiring blocks it would be 10 times harder to figure out a problem when one comes up.
Doug
Brad Lee:
I'll spare the pics of mine..
Yes it makes trouble shooting a little easier, tracing faults n crap like that.
It usually will look neater than a typical wire jungle
Also if youre planning on doing any kind of removable panel, or swappable, or modular, it's almost neccessary as a place to split the wires so the CP can be removed without messing around with the encoder at all
After seeing that youre the same guy askin about multi-conducter wire, check the pics in this thread http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=7920 it shows the 25-pair cable and a large wiring block.. dunno if this is what you have in mind or if youre still planning
crashdmj:
Thank you for the info Brad Lee and REBIRTH, my summer is devoted to this and a summer job (college student so no full time work yet)! Thanks
Derek
pmc:
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Derek
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God I miss that. I wanna go back to those days... :'(