A team effort soldering.
With the boards assembled and the female connectors
attached ...
... attention turned to wiring the detachable parts of the loom.
This entailed stripping and tinning the wires; a process speeded up by gently
splaying them out in a vice.
As everything was going OK, Stephen
borrowed Geoff's camera and snapped him smiling.
The technique for
soldering wires to spikes needed two pairs of hands
To prevent shorting
out between spikes, plastic sleeves were slid on and heat sealed.
Note
the temporary use of cup hooks to restrain the loom as the boards sit on edge.
Finally not to be outdone by the selfie taken at the Oscars
we had a go.
LM
As we had decided not to decide where to put the control panel, the loom has to be flexible. All wires, therefore, went first to the centre of the layout and then out as a single bundle at a length that will allow the control box to be placed at any point around the layout, front or back.
The final control panel will be no more than 420mm long (A3) and width to suit switches and studs. Geoff is going to make a mock-up panel to mount switches, etc., for a thorough test of both the panel and wiring.
As we had decided not to decide where to put the control panel, the loom has to be flexible. All wires, therefore, went first to the centre of the layout and then out as a single bundle at a length that will allow the control box to be placed at any point around the layout, front or back.
The final control panel will be no more than 420mm long (A3) and width to suit switches and studs. Geoff is going to make a mock-up panel to mount switches, etc., for a thorough test of both the panel and wiring.
