This weeks job was making a control panel for my new 009 layout.
Here are some photos and descriptions of the build. Click on an image for a larger picture.
I can’t decide whether to connect it to the layout with colour coded wires or use a single colour for the wires.
Sensible Steve thinks colour coded wires would make it easier to solve any problems.
Aesthetic Steve thinks it might look better if all the wires were the same colour.
What do you think?
Steve's Narrow Gauge Adventure 
Hi Steve, I assume you are in effect making an umbilical cord to join layout to control panel. If so you could use colour coded wires for ease of fault finding but run them through some black tubing for the aesthetics. Any fault and you can pull back the tubing to see the coloured wires.
Woody
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Hi Woody, Now that’s a good idea ! Sense and aesthetics solved in one go 🙂 thanks !!
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Use some wire wrap, there are several different sort, and this would please the artist in you AND the pragmatist.
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Hi Phil, I must confess I had to google ‘wire wrap’ :–) This is a great solution, Thanks!
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Looks good. I’ll utilise some of your ideas if I may. The box will need to be big enough to house a Megapoints MiniController. Then there will be only one servo cable leaving the box plus power for the controller.
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Hi Alan, Sure please use what you find useful 😉 Putting a controller in the panel is a good idea – fewer cables to deal with !!
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