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Labeling Wires

  • I am trying to organize the wires to my trains.  Do you have any recommendations?  Should I use duct tape, another type of tape, cardboard rings?????  Any and all suggestions would be appreciated. Line Man

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  • I use cable straps (some people call them zip ties) to hold them in place, a color code to identify the wires, and labels glued to the wood every place they are connected to anything.

    Dave

    Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow

  • Dave-

    That is some terrific wiring! 

    (I second the recommendation for using cable ties to keep things organized)

    -Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/

  • oltmannd

    Dave-

    That is some terrific wiring! 

    (I second the recommendation for using cable ties to keep things organized)

    Thank you.  That is one of my swing down boards.  I have added a BDL168 to it since I took that picture.

    Dave

    Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow

  • Like Dave, I label the termini.

    Since ALL of my wiring is done from terminal strip to terminal strip I label every terminal (with a code that is peculiar to my layout.)  The same code is noted adjacent to the connections to switch machines, panel controls, lamps...

    Essential to the system is thorough documentation.  I don't depend on my sometimes faulty memory, nor do I expect others to be able to grasp my not very intuitive system without help.

    Since I erected my benchwork with steel studs I am lucky enough to have natural wire runs, the wires retained inside the L girders and joists by short lengths of cap strip, which simply snap on.

    Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)

  • If you look closely at the picture I previously posted you will see the jumpers along the outside of the terminal strips.  When I added the BDL-168, I simply removed the jumper from the Rail A strip and made the detection connections in it's place.  I also moved the Rail B strip up a little because the two strips were too close together.

    Dave

    Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow