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zaphod
Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2002 Location: Cloverdale
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Link Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 4:03 pm Post subject: cable labelling |
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i'm finally making up the audio cables for the HT. i'd like to label them to help find ends that match the same cable. the short ones aren't a problem, but the long ones are going to be a problem when mixed in with all the others at the back end of a preamp or switcher.
i'm a computer guy so i know what's out there for our cables in the server rooms, but it all looks a bit nerdy. i've made up some pretty nice cables (i think ) so i'd prefer to do something a little less ... clinical.
what have you guys seen that looks good (and lasts) for cable labelling?
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WanMan
Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 10273
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Link Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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I have been using colored tape for the analog cables (red, green, and blue for Component). For the speaker cables hitting the AVR I simply write on a tape which speaker they go to, which is probably what can be done for multiples of digital video cables as well. For instance, I know I could ID via marked-tape the three HDMI sources going into the HDMI switch, etc.
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zaphod
Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2002 Location: Cloverdale
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Link Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 4:49 pm Post subject: |
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well, i have the flavours colour coded (red for right, white for left, green for sub/center, blue for digital, yellow for composite (don't ask). but i know that with the VCR and reel about 10 feet from the pre-amp, i'm going to have concerns about getting the three lefts and the three rights mixed up at one end.
the heat shrink takes a nice ballpoint that doesn't distort during heating, i might just do that. i did that on the "ended" cables and it looked okay. not great, but okay.
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Curt Palme CRT Tech
Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 24296 Location: Langley, BC
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One of my buddies has developed a wireless wire tag reader, similar to that used for reading chips embedded in pets. Probably not applicable here, but it is for really big installations. You tag a wire with either a wire tie with the tag embedded in it, or I think he has it in tape form as well.
YOu can therefore bury a wire that's not currently being used behind a wall, then come along months or years later and find the wire. He's still working on it, but the system works.
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zaphod
Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2002 Location: Cloverdale
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Link Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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cool. if it's small like the pet chips then you could capture it under the heat shrink. wild idea.
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Chuck27
Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 379 Location: Caledon Township, Ontario
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Link Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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I use a fine-point Sharpie and write directly on the wire, wherever possible.
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JustGreg
Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 3098 Location: Kenosha, WI
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Link Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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I use a Brother P-Touch label maker. More expensive to operate than tape and a Sharpie but I had it kicking around from my last job. My rack isn't anything special and it's in the HT so the labels look professional...even if the rack doesn't.
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perisoft
Joined: 29 Aug 2007 Posts: 2920 Location: Ithaca, NY
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Link Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 3:35 am Post subject: |
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Curt Palme wrote: | One of my buddies has developed a wireless wire tag reader, similar to that used for reading chips embedded in pets. Probably not applicable here, but it is for really big installations. You tag a wire with either a wire tie with the tag embedded in it, or I think he has it in tape form as well.
YOu can therefore bury a wire that's not currently being used behind a wall, then come along months or years later and find the wire. He's still working on it, but the system works. |
Dude. Then big brother will, like, know where your wires are. And like, control your *thoughts* dude. Dude. And totally screw up your noise floor. Big Brother's got a nasty sixty-hertz hum, man.
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