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Re: patch cord colors (rainbow)

2004-10-19 by strohs56k

--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, Seth Elgart <selgart@e...> wrote:
> This may seem like a silly question, but as there are nine cable 
> colors and eight heat shrink colors I'm rather at a loss as to which 
> of the 72 color combinations to order...

I used the rainbow (visible light) spectrum and colored by length.  So
violet = short wavelength = 1 foot, blue = 2 foot, green = 3 foot,
yellow = 4 foot, red = long wavelength = 6 foot.  Most of my cables
are the 2' and 3' length (blue and green), the second group (by
number) is the 1' and 4' length, and a limited number are the 6' length.

For any particular length of cable (say, the 3' length) I did half the
cables with white heatshrink (black print) and half the cables with
black heatshrink (white print).  (Like the keys of a piano I guess.) 
I guess this could be use to distinguish between CV and audio signals
but I don't really do this.  I just thought it would be cool to have
the half white half black on colored cables.

seth

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