Main > Main Forum
Wire Labels
mgb:
--- Quote from: Unstupid on March 03, 2014, 08:35:33 pm ---I'd rather just buy a wiring harness and just use the color coded wires to determine which wire does where.
--- End quote ---
I use wiring harnesses also, I like using the color coding.
I think color coding is easier in machines. Can you imagine if a pinball machine used tags instead of colors?
But I really like the way you did it.
I work in electronic systems in facilities, so I often have to mark cables but I have a Brady wire label printer for that.
But what I really got out of your post is the clear shrink wrap.
I've used shrink wrap many times but never knew it was available in clear.
Thanks for the tip.
DaOld Man:
I like the labeling.
I am an electrician in an aluminum rolling mill, so I understand the importance of labeling the wires.
In "A Little Rage" I used a label printer that printed onto heat shrink tubing, which makes for a very neat job.
This was the first build where I used it, but on my other builds I used peel and stick numbers, which work good but the labels are a lot more professional looking.
When you have 2 joysticks, 12 player buttons, trackball, a few admin buttons, plus lighted buttons, the labeling helps out 7 fold when trouble shooting, especially when all the wires are the same color and you run them in a nice and neat bundle.
I like your idea of using clear heat shrink over regular labels, it is probably cheaper than using the special printer and special heat shrink media.
Brutick:
I'm glad to hear all the positive feedback on this idea.
If I could afford a heat shrink printer and the special heat shrink for it, then I would totally go that direction.
I think this solution is a good compromise on cost and manual work to get the labels to fit. Doing this is certainly more time consuming than using a heat shrink printer, because the excess border around the text needs to be trimmed in order for the label to fit around the small (22AWG) wire.
Regardless, I think I will be doing this on my real build :)
Thanks,
Brutick
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[*] Previous page
Go to full version