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Permalink Reply by Joe Scheibinger on October 24, 2010 at 8:21pm

just to add Pat, does anyone have a professional wiring schematic that you would like to share with us?

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Permalink Reply by Ron Lendon on October 24, 2010 at 8:32pm

Print up small labels. Cut the paper and clear shrink wrap the printed paper to the wire. Don't use to much heat or you may discolor the paper. I do this for each end of the wire. Learned this in the Bob Nukols book AeroElectric Connection, http://www.aeroelectric.com/

YMMV

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Permalink Reply by Dave Gardea on October 25, 2010 at 8:54am

Hi Pat, I used the approach that Ron describes with the clear shrink wrap except that I used a Casio KL-820 Label Maker for the labels. I printed the labels on 6mm wide tape which fit nicely in the clear shrink wrap (see pic at link below). Be sure to label both ends of your wires. This same label maker was handy as it prints on 6mm white on clear label tape which I also used on my panel. regards //Dave

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Permalink Reply by Dave Gardea on October 25, 2010 at 10:01am

well I thought I included a link and can't see it now .. let's try this:

http://home.comcast.net/~davegardea/panel_%26_wiring.html#20

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Permalink Reply by Dr. Edward M. Moody II on October 25, 2010 at 11:47am

I found some small zip ties that have a "flag" about 5mm x 10mm suitable for an ultrafine Sharpie handwritten label. They are still legible and have worked well for me. They came from Stein Air;

http://www.steinair.com/cableties.htm

Ed

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Permalink Reply by Thomas Longo on October 26, 2010 at 6:35pm

Get white heat shrink flatten it out and number or label with a fine tip sharpie then shrink it on the wire. Now shrink wrap clear over it and it looks great, writing shrinks and is easily read.

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Permalink Reply by rob steenweg on October 30, 2010 at 3:08pm

Write wire identification on heat shrink with a sharpy it will work fine after shrinking the writing looks a lot better as well.
you can make it easy by using idents like XPNDR GND, VHFCOM 12V write down on your diagram what ident you use, you might forget, and it makes trouble shooting easy. Clear shrink has a low melting point than white.

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Permalink Reply by Jake Reyna on November 13, 2010 at 6:38am

Pat, I did the method recommended in AeroElectric and used the Dymo LetraTag to make the labels. It also works great to make labels for the panel, etc. It makes great flag labels for wires and is a better solution in most cases since you can make a label with the wire name twice with spaces in between (radio radio) when you wrap around the wire the name is on both sides. This is very handy.

It's available at Walmart, but here's a link to Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/DYMO-LetraTag-Personal-11944-Silver/dp/B00005...

One nice feature is that there are a number of different tapes, white, clear, metal, etc. and they come in cassettes, so you can change quickly.

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