05-13-2010, 04:16 AM
Love the din rail mounted terminal blocks- never thought of using din rails for a layout....
another advantage of those terminal blocks for those who havent used/seen them before is that say you need to terminate a lot of wires- like say 20 negatives all coming back to one point...
if you look at the coloured blocks in his photos, you will see an empty screw hole exactly in the center- thats for a busbar connection(made by the same people who make those connectors)
so what you do in that case is put say 10 `black' blocks side by side- fit the busbar and tighten up all the screws
bingo a colour coded 20 way negative terminal block
there is a surprising amount of industrial `stuff' like that that many people never see and it can turn out to be so easy to do
I must admit- that cab is a nice piece of work
I also learned in the days of wax string looming and right angled bends- these days some of those skills had to be unlearned as routing became more important then visual appeal :-(
another advantage of those terminal blocks for those who havent used/seen them before is that say you need to terminate a lot of wires- like say 20 negatives all coming back to one point...
if you look at the coloured blocks in his photos, you will see an empty screw hole exactly in the center- thats for a busbar connection(made by the same people who make those connectors)
so what you do in that case is put say 10 `black' blocks side by side- fit the busbar and tighten up all the screws
bingo a colour coded 20 way negative terminal block
there is a surprising amount of industrial `stuff' like that that many people never see and it can turn out to be so easy to do
I must admit- that cab is a nice piece of work
I also learned in the days of wax string looming and right angled bends- these days some of those skills had to be unlearned as routing became more important then visual appeal :-(
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