X config damaged by power failure - OT

[Robin Laing]

Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 15:26 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> Working in A/V production it's not uncommon to have some twenty cables
> going into gear, and 'tis a right pain to sort out which cable's which
> when they're bunched together.  I tried naming things, but when you
> re-use a cable, the name's wrong.  I tried numbering, but people expect
> cable one to go into socket one, and get mightily confused when it
> doesn't.  In the end I settled for using bands of coloured electrical
> insulation tape on both ends of the cable (e.g. green, red, then blue
> tape, starting from the plug ends, inwards).  You can easily find both
> ends of the same cable, that way, and it doesn't matter what they're
> connected to.

Use letters.  As you know, you can buy cable markers that have letters 
instead of numbers.  If under 26 cables, one letter each.  More than 26, 
start using double letters.

I like using my P-Touch TZ labeler for this purpose as well.  Not as 
cheap but nicer looking.  :)  Depending on the number of cables that 
need to be marked.


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Robin Laing