Electrical Board Mounting

[DavidGitz]

Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

The motor, the controller, the wires, the PWM and the breaker and it's position in the PD. We even mark the position on the side car where the PWM goes. If we are searching out a problem on the Blue motor, we check to see if the Blue speed controller is powered and lit. If not we check to see if the Blue breaker is in place. If all looks good there we check the blue PWM cable is connected at both ends to the Blue locations.

Al had posted a spreadsheet for detailing which item connects where a while back on CD-Media and we have really taken to that and using colored tape to identify components. We haven't used this in a competition yet but over the last 4 months of working on multiple projects during the off-season and now during the build-season this is a FANTASTIC way to go. As Al said, once things are installed there is no need for any schematics or for reading labels that twist/turn and are hard to read. We bought this from Amazon and works pretty well, however you probably want to avoid using the red or black tape for labeling components...

Also I can't find Al's original spreadsheet for documenting this, here is our version which is slightly modified but still performs the same function.