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Since I'm about to start on a battery and charging / monitoring system for a 50 cell LiFePo4 battery, I've been looking for a way to control the wiring so that the battery will look neat.
Here is what I've come up with for the monitoring section;
SCSI cables (Small Computer Systems Interface) Mac and Sun and a lot of others used this, some still do.
They have 25, 50 and 68 wire shielded cables in many lengths. Every one of them I've looked into has all of the wires color coded. The gauge appears to be 22 or 24 awg. Good enough to carry a voltage signal for a monitoring system.
You can get one long enough to do the job you need and cut it at some suitable midpoint and then get a gender changer to attach to one end connector, for some reason all the ones I've found are male/male. This give you a nice secure connector without a big expense. I think I've seen cables up to 20 feet for around $20.00 and gender changers for 5.00 on eBay.
You can split the outer cover and pull out wires at the distance you need tie them off and go on to the next, keeping all of the unused wires neat untill you get to the point of cable routing where you need them.
Hope this idea helps somenody else, I sure will help me.
Jim
Since I'm about to start on a battery and charging / monitoring system for a 50 cell LiFePo4 battery, I've been looking for a way to control the wiring so that the battery will look neat.
Here is what I've come up with for the monitoring section;
SCSI cables (Small Computer Systems Interface) Mac and Sun and a lot of others used this, some still do.
They have 25, 50 and 68 wire shielded cables in many lengths. Every one of them I've looked into has all of the wires color coded. The gauge appears to be 22 or 24 awg. Good enough to carry a voltage signal for a monitoring system.
You can get one long enough to do the job you need and cut it at some suitable midpoint and then get a gender changer to attach to one end connector, for some reason all the ones I've found are male/male. This give you a nice secure connector without a big expense. I think I've seen cables up to 20 feet for around $20.00 and gender changers for 5.00 on eBay.
You can split the outer cover and pull out wires at the distance you need tie them off and go on to the next, keeping all of the unused wires neat untill you get to the point of cable routing where you need them.
Hope this idea helps somenody else, I sure will help me.
Jim