Baron wrote:
Joerg Inscribed thus:
Baron wrote:
Joerg Inscribed thus:
John Fields wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:51:00 -0800, Joerg
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John Fields wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:38:03 -0800, Joerg
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Don Y wrote:
Hi Joerg,
On 1/18/2012 4:29 PM, Joerg wrote:
Hello Folks,
Have to get a data cable of about 0.200" OD, round, through
the side of a plastic case. Does anyone make these for such
small round cables?
Are you trying to protect the cable, dress it up, and/or
provide
strain relief? (in the latter case, how *much* strain?)
Only strain relief would be needed. Not much, jusdt so it
won't slip out of the box. They won't do tractor-pulling
contests with it :-)
It a wimpy cable, containing six 24AWG stranded wires.
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What we usually use is something like one of the 700 series
grommets from:
http://www.keyelco.com/pdfs/M60/M60p129.pdf
and then tie off the cable on the inside of the box with a tiny
tie-wrap.
Yes, that and a tie wrap to the board could work. We are already
using the 778 (finned type) somewhere else. Good idea, John.
I'll try to provide both options, a board cut-out large enough
to allow an LKG Industries grommet and then four holes farther
on for two tie wraps. They may not like the tie wraps because of
the prep-work. They'd have to loop these through before the
board gets mounted. Which would require a staging area in
production.
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I meant just using a grommet and a tie-wrap tightened around the
cable jacket on the inside of the box, like this:
news:10ajh75f1c8d8ocu1uktm1gci8ubgp05dj_at_4ax.com
Those kinds of links unfortunately do not work with my
Thunderbird.
The grommet's on the left at the top of the terminal block.
If you mean just a tie-wrap around the cable and not tied to
anything else that won't work. It's stranded wires in there and
that would push inside too easily. It'll wear out.
Sounds like the ideal grommet would be one that has a support tail
on
one side and a tyewrap groove on the other side. ...
Yup! But sans the tail, because that'll really get in the way.
... Similar to those
used on re-wirable IEC connectors. In fact I have a box of 5000 of
them but they are 7.5mm bore. They were originally used for cable
strain relief on UK 13A plugs. I'll see if I can photograph one and
post a picture.
I've just submitted the design. Put two holes in the board so if
need be we can secure the cables on the board and run through a
rubber grommet, in case the squeeze-grommet doesn't pan out. Believe
it or not, the drawing misses some crucial info such as cable
diameter ranges and the mfg didn't know, and said we should try with
samples. Almost fell off the chair here.
Unbelievable ! I wonder what manufacturing did when they made the
tooling...
Maybe massaged it until it fit :-)
Very big grin... (*)
