How do you deal with situations where you have proprietary connectors or molded connectors and a good deal of excess cable? This gets a bit untidy. I usually just coil up the excess and try to make it look neat, but would like something better. See the Dog’s Breakfast before photo for an example.
Yes, that’a challenge. One of the things I did was to completely redo the NMEA 2000 network and one of the reasons for that was to use the right length cables wherever I could. That said, I did not make up my own cables since that, while possible, adds unreliability.
Other than that, I do as you do, but try to have the coils outside the main panel area.
How do you deal with situations where you have proprietary connectors or molded connectors and a good deal of excess cable? This gets a bit untidy. I usually just coil up the excess and try to make it look neat, but would like something better. See the Dog’s Breakfast before photo for an example.
Hi William,
Yes, that’a challenge. One of the things I did was to completely redo the NMEA 2000 network and one of the reasons for that was to use the right length cables wherever I could. That said, I did not make up my own cables since that, while possible, adds unreliability.
Other than that, I do as you do, but try to have the coils outside the main panel area.