Post by liffy99 on Apr 18, 2018 17:57:36 GMT
And failed . . .
here's part of the problem - grand total of 34 cables of different types. I'd also run out of mains sockets.
So bought 2 19" 7 way rack mount strips, extended the mounting brackets so i could bolt them to the hi fi rack and started to tidy the cables. Thought I could try and keep mains from signal etc. but the logistics soon became impossible. So still a rats nest albeit with a couple of spare mains sockets and three cables less (as I dispensed with my never used HDMI embedder).
So, got the two extension blocks in anyway . . .
And then gave up - reassembled system and plumbed in my new Allo Digione to trial against my Raspberry PI / Digiplus board. More on that later.
One thing these last few hours have taught me;
1) Don't try doing all this 2 weeks after a hip replacement !
2) We need standardisation - so many plugs are too wide or too tall (esp with little SMPS wall warts / have leads coming from top or bottom / cables are far too stiff / moulded plugs are a pain when trying to trim leads to appropriate lengths. This all leads to an impossible task in trying to route things together. Best I could do was to keep SMPS plugs on one strip and proper mains plugs on t'other.
here's part of the problem - grand total of 34 cables of different types. I'd also run out of mains sockets.
So bought 2 19" 7 way rack mount strips, extended the mounting brackets so i could bolt them to the hi fi rack and started to tidy the cables. Thought I could try and keep mains from signal etc. but the logistics soon became impossible. So still a rats nest albeit with a couple of spare mains sockets and three cables less (as I dispensed with my never used HDMI embedder).
So, got the two extension blocks in anyway . . .
And then gave up - reassembled system and plumbed in my new Allo Digione to trial against my Raspberry PI / Digiplus board. More on that later.
One thing these last few hours have taught me;
1) Don't try doing all this 2 weeks after a hip replacement !
2) We need standardisation - so many plugs are too wide or too tall (esp with little SMPS wall warts / have leads coming from top or bottom / cables are far too stiff / moulded plugs are a pain when trying to trim leads to appropriate lengths. This all leads to an impossible task in trying to route things together. Best I could do was to keep SMPS plugs on one strip and proper mains plugs on t'other.
