Thread: How do you wire a rotating component?
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Re: How do you wire a rotating component?
either using these: http://www.mercotac.com/html/430.html

or simply limiting the rotation of the device to 180 or 360 degrees, and letting the slack in the wire make up this distance.

Or, by putting the wires through the igus energy chain, and having the chain wrap itself around the turret as it rotates, while giving the chain space to expand to as it rotates the opposite way.
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