If you can get them in Aus a Power Probe (PP4 I POWER PROBE 4 is the one I have), makes life much more bearable particularly working solo. They make a circuit tracing kit that has saved my butt when I have to start digging around in tightly packed looms, or trying to find an intermittent fault one a harness that runs the entire length of the car. Also being able to supply battery voltage or ground with the push of a button make testing massively easier to know if it’s a wiring, switch, or parts issue.
Buddy was installing lights on his kit car to make it road legal, and he’d spent two weekend trying to trouble shoot why it wasn’t working. Just like you said @Harry_Bumcrack, two different wires for some reason, took 10 minutes to get it sorted out and working.
But speaking of electrics, this kit came with these nifty little plastic doo-hickies that splice two wires in parallel just by closing, pinching then finishing with a pair of pliers. The job takes seconds. All or my mechanical work is aviation. These thingamajobs don’t seem to exist in aviation. (Maybe for good reason). but I want a bunch!
My internet searching yields a bunch of household electronic splicing methods. Somebody out there PLEASE help a guy out. Each doodad is about 1/2 inch square. Inside are two metal cradles that join the wires in parallel by cutting through the insulation but not the wires once cinched. They’re cheap looking little buggers. It bet no more than 25 cents a pop.
Well I’ll be damned if I’m pulling all that out again to get to the wires. Let the sparks fly! So long as I finish my mission on April 1. Splicing the taillight wiring would also be a challenge as there is very little room or extra length to sacrifice in the bundle. Thus the genius of this (flawed) system. So, for now, she works! That’s my pat. Back to the thread…
Customer: But sir, my PC is running at about 70C! Its just impossibe to get anything done. Its hot and i cant put it on my lap
Me: Bring it by, ill see what i can do.
Customer: i take good care of my laptop.
A few minutes later…
I just spent the afternoon debugging my folks Internet, which comes via a Cat7 cable from our place.
It turns out when I made the cable a couple of years ago and crimped it, it wasn’t quite home and become dislodged, giving an intermittent dropout.
That took about 10 minutes.
The remaining 3.5 hours were spent splicing mutha #!${*+?ing CAT7 connectors, testing the continuity using my tester, finding one pair swapped, cutting the connector off and repeating the process.
Finally when I got it sorted, I did a check of every other patch cable in their switch, just in case and a final check of the newly spliced cable only to find it was shorting.
After swearing a bit more, I did another cut/replacement of the connector plug, only to find on testing that I’d the other end plugged into the switch and the termination end of the tester connected to the wrong patch cable.
So well done Keets, you muppet, have a cow pat on your back. You could have saved yourself a lot.
I would add, the designer of CAT7 cables and RJ45 connectors, crimping tools and the like needs to be forced to count and number each and every pebble on Chesil Beach, putting them back exactly where they were.
