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Ed.Kloonk:
--- Quote from: Whales on October 17, 2022, 05:42:16 am ---EDIT: I most post some pics later
Are you guys installing your labels along the cables (axially) or wrapping them around the cables (hanging off a bit like a flag)? I normally do the latter, it's uglier but it means the label adhesive is sticking to label adhesive, so it's much less likely to fall of.
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Yes. I did that (the axial method, thanks for naming it). The flag method works but that was why I bought the DYMO because I had previously did that with white isulation tape and texta.
--- Quote ---You do however have to write the same thing twice on the same label, with spaces in between, so both sides of the flag have writing. Aligning the flag isn't too hard once you have done it a few times (put the centre on the cable, align and stick the ends together, "push" the seal towards the cable, trim any slight mismatch on the ends with scissors).
EDIT: An axial alternative I have seen are printing small labels on standard paper, cutting them out and using clear heatshrink to hold the to the cable. You can probably do this with existing label-making machine labels too. Doesn't help if your CAT cables are pre-terminated however :(
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Yeah I only have patch leads or non-mounted ethernet jacks. But the clear heatshrink is a good idea to install and save for later for the jack to jack connections. :-+
Black Phoenix:
The ones I use are the axially ones or "cable wrap". The Dymo and Brother original ones are strong but the cartridges are too expensive for the number of tags on them.
Brother - https://www.amazon.com/Brother-Laminated-Flexible-Black-White/dp/B004ZMX7Y0
Dymo - https://www.amazon.com/DYMO-Laminated-Cable-Makers-1868705/dp/B0140YZCR2
The OEM cartridges the glue is not that good (talking about the Brother ones, didn't test the Dymo and don't even know if they have them).
PlainName:
--- Quote from: Red Squirrel on October 17, 2022, 04:23:35 am ---
--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on October 16, 2022, 01:04:44 am ---My Dymo which was bought before we knew about the shitcanery but prolly still possesses it, works OK but the tape doesn't like to stick to cat5. Well it does for a while. Annoying when you find them all laying on the floor. >:(
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I have yet to find a way to label small cables like cat5. I have a Brother and even with that one the labels always fall off after a while, it's really annoying.
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Hellerman RiteOn
Edit: the picture isn't too clear (probably a stock image like in a thread hereabouts). There is an opaque part of the label you write on, then the rest of it is clear. So you wrap it around the wire starting with the opaque part and the clear part protects the bit you're written on whilst still leaving it visible. It's sticky, of course. I posted a photo of some network cabling in a thread hereabouts and if you look closely there are three or four cables with these labels (they come from somewhere other than the distribution board so need separate labeling to identify them). Those cables are roughly 20 years old, and although the ink is going a bit see-through now but they are still identifiable.
Also got some Dymo labels that work on the same principle. Don't know how good they are - got the labels, ran out of cables that needed labeling.
newbrain:
--- Quote from: newbrain on October 11, 2022, 09:22:44 am ---A flat in Stockholm, built 2007.
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I'll post my Rome panel in some days, just for comparison.
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And here I am.
Four measly breakers for 160 m2 apartment.
A "differenziale" (RCD) that acts also as main breaker.
The wiring is decent, considered also that before renovation both PE and the phases* were using G/Y wires :palm:
This was wired and certified according to code by a licensed electrician.
As an additional consideration: the standard contract in Italy is 3 kW (+10% overdraw), on a single 230 V phase*, so not much point in having tons of sections...
*In vast areas of Rome, there's no neutral wire. Both wires are live - coming from conversions of old 110 V connections to 220 V (just connect the neutral to another phase, and overvolt the transformer by ~15%).
AVGresponding:
Not a fuse box I know, but not completely unrelated. This popped up in discord earlier, one can only hope that it's a joke...
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