Ribbon cable can be pretty small gauge. If you use ribbon cable, try to find cable with at least the same gauge rating that Tracy recommends for his wiring harness.

Mike LaFleur

----- Original Message ----
From: Charlie England <ceengland@bellsouth.net>
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 8:05:55 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: wire harness adaptor

d-sub connector, right?

If a few inches of vinyl insulation doesn't terrify you, consider an extension made with ribbon cable & 2 displacement type connectors. Those are the type you typically see on ribbon cables inside older computers, tying all the various components together.

Charlie

Bob White wrote:

Hi Bob,

The only way I can see getting the connector any tighter might be to
build a short extension without backshells, then plug into that.  I'm
not sure how bad of an idea that would be.  The first concern would be
reliability since there wouldn't be any protection for the wires if the
cable got pulled on.

Bob W.     


On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:27:25 -0500
bmears9413@aol.com wrote: