I have a Brady heat set label maker with all the popular electronic
symbols, the tape or even heat-shrink wrap is available in multiple
sizes and color contrast white tape black marking yellow tape black
markings. Brady offers tape and heat shrink tubing.
Down side ? the tape heat-shrink is pretty expensive, example i am
presently using some heat shrink tubing 3 meter in length and its like
45.00 for the roll. you can stop in mid production and switch to tape
then back to shrink tubing or as you want.
But for me its not the cost its what i want and the look i want so i
dont care $$$ ..
Them the anal part comes into play [this already sounds bad] what
direction do you want the writing to run, into the device away from the
device or connection or with the 'flow' of the cable direction, how far
from each end or termination point . your own intuitiveness comes into
play and what suits you best. if you were to review my work, it would
show how i have progressed in my thinking and effort from my first
efforts, and most often its the re-do effort that keeps me from going
back and re-making the early ones i dont now pattern after.
All in all i have moved a long way from masking tape and 'marks a lot
flags and hanging circular tags and various colors and the must have
then legend that converted my gibberish into what cable [example] A-16
really serves.
The next area i wanted to solve was showing a quick difference between
AC and DC circuits plus Battery ckts. i have 2 DC buss runs, 12vdc and
13.8vdc.
My audio identification was/is the most challenging, i collect military
speakers so its always a situation 600 ohm 3.2-4 ohm 8 ohm and 16 ohm
feeds.
I also have a Kingsley hot stamping machine but have pretty much moved
away from that, but my early cables still reflect that method.
It is at this point i have likely given you TMI and will close this and
see what others proffer.
best: mac/mc w5mc
On 7/24/2019 5:36 PM, Richard Smith wrote:
I'm involved in building a fairly large station. There will be many coax,
rotor, and control cables coming in to a main entrance of a building. It would
be helpful if there was a good method of marking the cables to identify them
for routing and troubleshooting purposes.
If you don't mind, would you please share your techniques?
TNX and 73,
Rich, N6KT
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