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| SparkyFX:
--- Quote from: cur8xgo on June 28, 2019, 04:50:02 am ---The cables fall off because they are in series..if the one you want isn't at the very front, you have to pull off the ones in front of it and that leads to at least one falling off. Or since they are all dangling and in close proximity it just tends to pull off one or more of the ones next to it. --- End quote --- This is kind of an issue, but only when you do not sort the cables by type/color and slot. If i need a 4mm banana, they are all the same slot, so the one i want will always be the first one. It is helpful to shake them a bit while pulling out to untangle them. I´ve seen other types of holding systems, but they are usually one system per holder only, which is not the point here. Maybe something like these toolholders, one on the top, another one or two (to accomodate different lengths) below might be able to stretch your cables as you want them as well, although it think it´s not worth it as it requires two operations instead of one to get this one cable. |
| schmitt trigger:
--- Quote from: cur8xgo on June 28, 2019, 03:42:13 am --- ....so sad what happened to those two. Pease getting into a fatal car accident on the way back from Williams funeral. What kind of awful tragedy is that --- End quote --- I remember reading the news in utter shock. A terrible, terrible loss. At least they must now be in analog heaven. Jim with hundreds of analog scopes, and Bob with several vintages of pristine VW Beetles. Surrounded by every opamp ever made (including the Philbrick K2-W) properly stored in convenient drawers. |
| ArthurDent:
I still have a problem keeping the power cords, cables, and leads, that I'm currently using neat. :palm: |
| mdszy:
--- Quote from: cur8xgo on June 28, 2019, 03:39:25 am ---I'm going to make this thing suffer before I send it to its destruction This isnt even half of all the test leads I have..I dread having to use this thing for any reason. Touch it and a cable falls off. --- End quote --- Buddy, I hate to break it to you, but you're using that thing ENTIRELY wrong. We have them at my campus and they keep cables nice and organized, when you use them right... You're not supposed to coil the cables over it like that. You're supposed to slide them on STRAIGHT and let them hang by a BNC connector or whatever the larger end of the cable is. Then, if you want one near the back, you hold them all, slide them all off, grab the one you want, and slide the rest back on. It's really not bad if you use it correctly. See attached. |
| cur8xgo:
--- Quote from: mdszy on June 28, 2019, 04:24:32 pm --- --- Quote from: cur8xgo on June 28, 2019, 03:39:25 am ---I'm going to make this thing suffer before I send it to its destruction This isnt even half of all the test leads I have..I dread having to use this thing for any reason. Touch it and a cable falls off. --- End quote --- Buddy, I hate to break it to you, but you're using that thing ENTIRELY wrong. We have them at my campus and they keep cables nice and organized, when you use them right... You're not supposed to coil the cables over it like that. You're supposed to slide them on STRAIGHT and let them hang by a BNC connector or whatever the larger end of the cable is. Then, if you want one near the back, you hold them all, slide them all off, grab the one you want, and slide the rest back on. It's really not bad if you use it correctly. See attached. --- End quote --- The reason they are coiled over is because I keep it at desk-height so I can get to it to it while I'm working, and if I dont double them up the cable length over about 4 feet will be on the ground. Even you use it as you show they are still in series so getting what you want would be a random event and you'd have to unload anything in front, and it would still be difficult to determine what cable end at the top belongs to which at the bottom, and would require them to be 6 feet off the ground so the cables arent touching the floor. If you are in a environment where you are standing, have few enough cables or identical enough cables to where you can have 1 slot per type, then the pomona comb would be good (like a production test setup where you are standing and doing the same thing over and over). Although still very expensive at $15 each although maybe there are cheaper versions. If you are sitting at a workstation actively prototyping, debugging, or doing something unpredictable, and have a very wide assortment of test leads that you need to exchange out ever few minutes as you are doing different things, the pomona comb doesnt work, in my experience anyway |
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