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Your bin approach has, in my opinion, a lot of problems: cables will get tangled; nobody is going to organize the bins anymore than they would organize the rack; The bins take up a LOT of surface area; finding a particular cable is harder than the rack once the cables do get mixed up.Hi,
I'm preparing some work to put suggestions for components, equipment and laboratory furniture.
The head of the department asked me also to search for a good cables storage system. Currently we have patch cables holders, but I don't like them, they get messy and lousy as students don't hold on keeping them arranged all the time, they might get organized one or two times in a semester, but then they get back to the lousy shape which is not attractive.
So this is an example of the patch cables holder when it's fairly organized:
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And this is the solution I suggested a year ago, but I don't know if the team like it or not. This issue hasn't discussed in the department meetings as I recall:
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But my question is what you guys suggest for me ?
Your bin approach has, in my opinion, a lot of problems: cables will get tangled; nobody is going to organize the bins anymore than they would organize the rack; The bins take up a LOT of surface area; finding a particular cable is harder than the rack once the cables do get mixed up.
But I don't have a better solution than the rack.
... someone has to come and arrange them because a high representative in our organization is coming to visit ...
i prefer the hanger in the photograph below
mount it to the wall
all cables hang down
less tangling, and you see what your getting (mostly) from the end at the top.
works fine for banana jacks and BNCs
i see no way around the need to periodically sort and re-order the cables.
Yes, it's a student lab and that's of course the usual lab routine. That anyone who do the experiment, then this person has to put back the cables they way they were. But the problem is that we actually have a bit of a problem in this action of putting back cables in order and organized.if this is a student lab, then when the equipment is put out, put out the appropriate cables also
when the students are done, they unplug all the cables and lay then straight, on their lab bench,
next to the equipment. one result is that the person(s) who set out and put away the equipment
are the ones who put the cable back in the hanger. thus the cables are put away neatly.
you should have a separate bin for broken cables, so they don't get mixed with the good ones
i have taught at 6 different colleges/universities and worked at 4 different industrial employers.
visits from the higher ups always produce frantic cleaning and "pretty-fication"
its good to have warning.
just clean up and let it be water off a duck's back
I suggest using the Pomona cable looms (or equiv) like are
shown on the "tree", but wall mounted near equipment and
holding just what pertains to that equipment, along with a
list of what (and only what) should be there. Like a HP4156
ought to have 4 Triax, 4 BNC, and ethernet, maybe the kooky
parallel cable for the remote box and that's it. Nice, neat.
Each to its own.
Then you can hang some for common-use banana, BNC,
power cords that ought to have a surplus, or leave the "tree"
for stuff that's not station-specific.
Didn't get what "preetyness decorative looks" mean ? Do you mean I'm focusing on the aesthetics of the lab rather than practicality ?Your emphasis in preetyness decorative looks bothers me. It is not how they hang; it is about the methodic proper behavior of who handles them.
Image in post #7 has always worked for me.
Individual excess wires in zip-lock clear bags in a bin keep them identifiable and untangled, leaving the hangers less populated.
I'm actually searching for something practical; like the ideas from Mr wwfeldman suggested for me.
Yes, this solution is very convenient in a mature environment, where everyone is professionally practicing his work.Hi,
in the lab in my company we have a self-made solution. A long rectangle plastic board (~200 cm x 20 cm) is mounted on the wall at a heigth of about 2 m. There are equidistantly drillings across the whole board, which allows to plug in the banana cables.
This solution allows (theoretically) a placement without tangling/knotting the cables if they are plugged in their dedicatded (marked) area/part of the board. The length of the individual length-areas can be marked with an ordinary tape below the plastic board (i.e. a horizontal tape stripe ~1 m below the board matching 1 m long cables).
This is a very cheap solution, which can be also made out of a (solid) wooden board, it only requires some time to drill the holes. In my obinoin it is way better than the cable holder shown in the initial post, which I have fought with several times.
BR
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