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sleeving the cables
- Thread starter trueblack
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yea sleeving is easy you just buy a sleeving kit like
http://www.amazon.com/mod-smart-Power-Supply-Sleeving/dp/tags-on-product/B0042AV11G
then you just slide the sleeves over the cable using the smallest sizes you can for each set of wire and use a little heat shrink tubing on each end of each wire,done.
http://www.amazon.com/mod-smart-Power-Supply-Sleeving/dp/tags-on-product/B0042AV11G
then you just slide the sleeves over the cable using the smallest sizes you can for each set of wire and use a little heat shrink tubing on each end of each wire,done.
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Sleeving is easy, but, if you can, grab the supplies from FTWPC. They're like MDPC, more or less, but MDPC is now "partially closed".
The cables aren't all the same colour for a very simple reason. Computers, say, "standard computers" are not designed to have windows and be eye-candy. They're designed to be functional. Colour-coded cables are very functional. Imagine you are trying to fix a computer and you don't know what's wrong with it. You want to test the PSU, so you disconnect the 24p cable and... what do you see? All the cables are the same black colour and you have no idea which cable does what. You have to pull a datasheet, start counting cables, connecting probes, and repeating that operation for a long time. With colour codes, you just have to remember a few colours and what they mean (f.ex., yellow is 12V, red is 5V, blue is -12V, orange is 3.3V, green is PS_ON, black is ground...) and test them without having to pull datasheets. Ain't that nice?
The cables aren't all the same colour for a very simple reason. Computers, say, "standard computers" are not designed to have windows and be eye-candy. They're designed to be functional. Colour-coded cables are very functional. Imagine you are trying to fix a computer and you don't know what's wrong with it. You want to test the PSU, so you disconnect the 24p cable and... what do you see? All the cables are the same black colour and you have no idea which cable does what. You have to pull a datasheet, start counting cables, connecting probes, and repeating that operation for a long time. With colour codes, you just have to remember a few colours and what they mean (f.ex., yellow is 12V, red is 5V, blue is -12V, orange is 3.3V, green is PS_ON, black is ground...) and test them without having to pull datasheets. Ain't that nice?
