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post #7781 of 9439
Hey guys,

I think some of us might be familiar with the following problem:

When you're sleeving your front panel USB connections, the heatshrink over the connector on the motherboard side won't allow you to bend the cable like you would want to bend it. The result doesn't look that good (at least in my opinion).

So I was searching for a solution and tried to find something like a 90° USB header connector, but couldn't find any.
Well, here's what I tried next:



Just a simple female to male USB extension with a right angle.

Let me hear what you think about it. I tried to calculate the difference of the signal timings because of the different cable lengths, but came to the conclusion that they're negligible. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Edited by Furion92 - 8/7/12 at 2:50pm
post #7782 of 9439
I don't see why it wouldn't work. I usually don't even try to bend any of mine before the end of the shrink. The exception being where my power connectors go into the Xstation on the side of the rig, I pretty much have to bend the crap out of the ends of the wire going into the 4 pin connectors to get the side panel on.
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post #7783 of 9439
My made cable sleeving:



Edited by Extreme191Pro - 8/10/12 at 2:02am
post #7784 of 9439
Quote:
Originally Posted by Extreme191Pro View Post

My made cable sleeving:

Nice clean job bud!
post #7785 of 9439
Thank you inspired by your cable Sleeving. smile.gif
post #7786 of 9439
Thanks man! I love to hear that because that's the main reason I invest the time into the guides and such!
post #7787 of 9439

Lutro0, quick question for you.

 

For my upcoming build log, Project Rose, I'm going to probably go all out and sleeve everything, including the speaker wires as well as the big 12 V power and ground cables going to the amplifiers.  What is your recommendation for sleeving the speaker wires in particular.

 

they will be #16 at the most, but 2 wires joined together.  I'm thinking doing a short run on the ends where I need to split it apart with little pieces of heat shrink, then a slightly larger size heat shrink along the entire length of the cable with its heat shrink overlapping right at the split in the cable where the two individual wires are heat shrunk.

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post #7788 of 9439
That sounds like it will work fine. I would use a plastic type sleeve such as MDPC simply due to the durability. That goes the same for the hs. However I have a few ideas for durability with that one.

Depending on how large the split is you might be able to get away with some fancy heatshrinking - but I would need to see it to make recommendations
post #7789 of 9439
After sleeving: Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
Before: Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)

I sleeved the 24 pin power and the 2 fans attached to the H100 biggrin.gif
Also got black 3 min connectors from fans I had laying around
post #7790 of 9439
Interesting way to sleeve the fans...never seen it done that way before...the system looks great thumb.gif
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