accidentally cut off 24 pin ATX power connector and want to reattach, question

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I'd wire each wire separately but I'm anal. However you could blob all the same colours together and then insulate carefully.

John :-#)#

In commoning up the individual wires, ye might need thicker cables to handle the current.

I'd rewire each separately using similar wire to the original. Take ya time and use heat shrink, leaded solder and a good soldering iron. It's not a difficult job to be considering short cuts.

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I interpreted the OP as saying he would join all the wires of the same colour in a blob and glom the other wires to the same blob. Ugly, but it

would work. Not professional at all. However folks do like short cuts and that was what I offered. I would be too embarrassed to actually do that blob thingy though...

John ;-#)#

The OP should stagger the cuts for each set of common wires. To attempt them side-by-side would put all the "blobs" side-by-side.

I am reminded of the idiot in the UASF that was told to replace a 36 conductor plug in a F-102's radar equipment bay. He cut the cable straight across about 2" from the old connector. Then, after soldering new "stub" wires into the new plug, he proceeded to splice it all back onto the cut cable. He somehow succeded, but the plane's crew chief could not close the cover over the equipment bay -- due to the now some-6" thick bable.

(Anybody remember dzus fasteners?)

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Muchos gracias! (this is your second official language, eh?)

John :-#)#

errr, uuuuh, no, My second official language is IBM Mainframe Assembler. After that comes German, then PHP. :-)

Jonesy

You could argue he was given insufficiently clear instructions on his task. Though a real tech should have figured it out.

In a factory where I worked there was an OSHA potential violation identified, the 6 mill roll stands did not have individual identification placards.

I wrote an order to the most recent hire: use the engraver and make 6 placards labeled Mill Roll Stand #1 - #6.

I knew what I wanted but he didn't. Next time I checked all 6 mill roll stands had identical labels, Mill Roll Stand #1 - #6.

I will admit that I have also cut a cable too close to a connection and quickly regretted it.

"But you know what I mean."

No, I know what you said (wrote). I am still trying to discern what you mean.

"Can I ......?"

Answer A: I should certainly hope so! Answer B: I do not know. Can you?

Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

You could do this, but you'll quite a bit of flexibility if you combine colors into big fat connections covered in heatshrink or tape. Your connector may not fit in the case as the cables and patches are too stiff or in the wrong place etc.

Any wire cut to length is too short

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If a wire has one end, then it has another.

Not that hard, for the most part the wires of the same color re interchange able.

might help.

Note if you ever want to try that again you need a couple of things. First the green wire on pin 11 or 177 needs to be grounded to turn it on. Then to keep it on you must load the 5 volt about an amp, but you might get by wit h less. I power resistor 4.7 ohms would do bt it has to be at least 5 watts , and it WILL warm up so you have to kinda insulate it. Unless you want to use a big ass 20 watt.

Cut it too long, the boss might gripe. Cut it too short, you're fired.

On one of the install jobs I was on, we had just pulled a 24 pair fiber optic cable. The installer connected 12 pairs to the devices already in the cabinet. The proceeded to cut off the remaining end flush with the box. "They were in the way."