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Layout control panels
nodcc4me:
Nicely done, Alan. I won’t ask how you were able to type the wire info on all those tags. :o
ON28:
Worth the wait!
G8B4Life:
Nope, I don't believe it, your having us on! I suspect what really happened is that in the intervening years since you started the control panels the railroad got tired of waiting for it's interlocking supplier and went somewhere else. You photoshopped that LED glow in didn't you? ;D
I must say I'm surprised you don't like crimping Alan, I'd use it everywhere I could just to get away from soldering wires. It must be a case of the proper tool for the job, and in the case of the JST series connectors that proper tool looks like it's an automatic strip-feed-crimp-cut to length machine I saw in action (online) once when I briefly considered whether making motherboards like what TCS and the Decoder Buddy guy did but for RP's 9 pin setup was something viable. BTW, the JST headers are available in way cooler colours than white too but you'd probably have a hard time finding them outside of the JST online shop.
Actually there is another type of JST crimping tool out there. Not sure if it does the XH size or not but it looks like a set of long nose pliers; much smaller than the ratcheting set.
- Tim
Alan:
--- Quote from: G8B4Life on July 26, 2020, 11:20:10 AM ---I must say I'm surprised you don't like crimping Alan, I'd use it everywhere I could just to get away from soldering wires.
- Tim
--- End quote ---
Different strokes for different folks, I guess. I learned to solder before I was 10 years old. 50+ years on it is second nature. Everything else on the layout is soldered, why not the panel connectors too!
emd_16645:
Alan, I think you need to brush up on your Red Green episodes. Your mobile work station didn't have a scrap of duct tape on it. ;D
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