Control system Zip Tied

[PayneTrain]

Originally Posted by ksafin

There's just something about strapping my electronics with velcro that gives me a horrible feeling.

I'm sure it works, but it seems sort of crude to me. Not refined. Incomplete. Lacking elegance.

For all intensive purposes, I'm sure it works and works fine - and swapping is probably nice - but I like my electronics board pretty

Instead of doing something like that to swap parts quickly, you could just add on extras of vital parts that need little work to be changed out (motor controllers come to mind). For other stuff like the PDB, DS, and cRIO, you'd be spending a lot of time detaching all of the wires in the first two cases and well... I wouldn't velcro on a cRIO and just roll with it.

It is personal preference, but I like bolting down electronics.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

We have used tywraps exclusively for the cRio and other electronics. Let's face it they are insulated. However, small tywraps are not appropriate and more than one set is required. The cRio should not move when you push it from side to side. If you have empty slots, pass a set of tywraps through the holes of the unused slot to be sure the cRio doesn't move.