Wiring patchbays fairly neatly -a 'How-To'

[radardoug]

One note on this excellent article. When I first started doing patchbays, there was no heatshrink. So what we did was use colored plastic tube, red and black, which fit snugly over the terminals. So you remove the shorting possibility, but you can slip the plastic peices off when you need to modify the patch panel. You could do this with heatshrink, just dont shrink it after fitting.
Patchbays are often a work in continuous progress.

 

[Henkkamachine]

> It seems that linked pictures are missing..?

Obfuscated.

I find (on these images) that if I Right-Click and View Image, I get a clear image. Try that.

Thanks, it worked. 

 

[Pants]

One note on this excellent article. When I first started doing patchbays, there was no heatshrink. So what we did was use colored plastic tube, red and black, which fit snugly over the terminals. So you remove the shorting possibility, but you can slip the plastic peices off when you need to modify the patch panel. You could do this with heatshrink, just dont shrink it after fitting.
Patchbays are often a work in continuous progress.

One note on this excellent article. When I first started doing patchbays, there was no heatshrink. So what we did was use colored plastic tube, red and black, which fit snugly over the terminals. So you remove the shorting possibility, but you can slip the plastic peices off when you need to modify the patch panel. You could do this with heatshrink, just dont shrink it after fitting.
Patchbays are often a work in continuous progress.

I'm guessing these may look familiar @radardoug !

 

[radardoug]

Yep!

 

[Rob Flinn]

Although the wiring looks quite neat on the photos at the beginning of this thread, personally I would never wire up patch bays without a piece of silicon sleeving on the ground drain wire & an H15 rubber sleeve over the bit where the overall insulation is stripped back to. I don't like bare earth wires flapping around.