Organizing Wires
Feb 6, 2024 14:56:55 #
jerryc41 wrote:
I've been working on a plan to re-organize the wir... (show quote)
I kick the wires behind a table, or desk, then pile enough stuff around that you can not see them. Comes naturally. When I run out of plugs I add another "power strip", or replace the one that is there with one that has more outlets. All on, all the time. It has taken me 30 years to refine this system, but it works well in an old house with brick and plaster walls that are not conductive to adding wall plugs. Original house had floor plugs, but I spill too much for them to be safe.
Boris
Feb 6, 2024 15:44:34 #
rcarol wrote:
Keep the wires as straight as you possibly can because, as you may or may not know, electricity does not like bends. It wants to go straight. Bends slow down the electrons and your internet speed will suffer.
I've been doing that for years. A straight wire is a fast wire. 🤣
Feb 6, 2024 15:46:35 #
Something I highly recommend is labeling the wires somehow. I use a label maker. I also use colored wires.
Of course, when labeling, it's best to label where the wire goes and where it is coming from. It can get a bit ridiculous.
Of course, when labeling, it's best to label where the wire goes and where it is coming from. It can get a bit ridiculous.
Feb 6, 2024 15:53:02 #
srt101fan wrote:
And be quick when you make your connections to keep the electrons from falling out of the wire. ☹️
Definitely!
Otherwise there'll be a mess on the floor!
Feb 6, 2024 15:53:30 #
jerryc41 wrote:
I've been doing that for years. A straight wire is a fast wire. 🤣
Feb 6, 2024 15:55:12 #
BebuLamar wrote:
.... The first thing is try not to change your computer configuration like adding drives, monitors, printers etc.. Second don't move things around.
If you do that 2 then it's fairly easy to organize the cables.
If you do that 2 then it's fairly easy to organize the cables.
New equipment and replacements happen...
Feb 6, 2024 16:43:30 #
Longshadow wrote:
New equipment and replacements happen...
I said that because when I was working full time I change the configuration of my computer about once a day.
Feb 6, 2024 16:55:37 #
Burtzy wrote:
I've done this multiple times and the fact that the cables never meet my personal length needs always manages to leave something hanging in a loop or something not reaching. My less than perfect solutions have always been frustrating,
This has always been my experience too. The whole apparatus is so intertwined by now that it takes forever to trace any given cable from one end of its connection to the other.
Feb 6, 2024 17:54:38 #
Longshadow wrote:
Definitely!
Otherwise there'll be a mess on the floor!
Otherwise there'll be a mess on the floor!
Nothing worse than a pile of electrons.
Feb 7, 2024 07:24:01 #
rcarol wrote:
Keep the wires as straight as you possibly can because, as you may or may not know, electricity does not like bends. It wants to go straight. Bends slow down the electrons and your internet speed will suffer.
Feb 7, 2024 07:41:27 #
Feb 7, 2024 08:06:50 #
Longshadow wrote:
I try to dress them, without tie-wraps
Eh.....
Can't really see most of them anyway.
Tie-wraps are nice, until you have to go get the cutters and more tie-wraps because you added/replaced something,
or want to move it.
Eh.....
Can't really see most of them anyway.
Tie-wraps are nice, until you have to go get the cutters and more tie-wraps because you added/replaced something,
or want to move it.
I bought some self sticking velcro that came in a 3 foot strip and simply cut ✂️ off what I needed, and gave the rest to my wife.
Feb 7, 2024 08:12:40 #
Longshadow wrote:
Humor.....
RE: " . . . .electricity does not like bends."
This is true with fluids . . . .
However, when electricity is diverted through me, it goes kicking and (me) screaming right through me at the speed of light, usually around sixty times/second w/o (to my knowledge) slowing down.
Now that doesn't make me . . .
Smile,
JimmyT Sends
ZzzzzT Yikes!
Feb 7, 2024 08:23:43 #
Jimmy T wrote:
RE: " . . . .electricity does not like bends.... (show quote)
Electricity does NOT like being contained in one's body, it will do ANYTHING to get out!
Feb 7, 2024 08:50:28 #
Longshadow wrote:
Electricity does NOT like being contained in one's body, it will do ANYTHING to get out!
Hence the ZzzzzT Yikes!
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