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Re: Ideas for wire placement

How are you doing on weight? Options of varying weight impact include:
  • A hatch to cover your main electronics (leaving the 120A breaker button available for emergency reset and the controller lights visible).
  • Ty-wrap to group your cables and link them to non-moving parts of the structure.
  • Keep your cables as short as possible (while allowing for minimum bend radii and routing considerations)
  • Some form of conduit to enclose a wiring bundle and protect it from snags and abrasion. Useful types of this include the IGUS energy chain from the KOP and something we usually call "vaccum cleaner hose conduit").
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