Wiring Kit

[Joe G.]

Originally Posted by timytamy

That's interesting, do you have a P/N for the wire/crimps/crimper that you used? The only failure we had this year was a student getting a bit too excited over cutting cable ties :| However this year we had the luxury of set-and-forget electronics, most cables were installed once in their permanent position, so they weren't stressed too much.

We use all the standard Hansen Hobbies stuff:

Crimper
Terminals
Wire

We had used the exact same crimper and terminals for a few years, and most of the failures took the form of bending failure of all wire strands, so we blame the wire. I don't know off the top of my head the wire that 1687 used before this year (I know it was a lower gauge), but my team plans to use this stuff moving forwards, although we may experiment with other gauges of the high-strand stuff.

The vast majority of failures were of sensor leads related to our shooter gearbox, which we removed for maintenance a few times, and between each event as part of our withholding allowance. Wires that didn't need to be touched after installation such as victor PWMs fared much better.