Cable Managment

Basics

• The Design, Methods (And sort of artform) of organising cables, and extending their lifetime via design
• Mainly Done via Zipties , Strain Releif , Drag Chains , Electrical Conduit , And port placement, and cable passthroughs
• Special Cable Bundles are also made for applications such as MIDI and DMX setups with many universes
• Also standard choice can help (See Artnet )
• For Power Supplies Fully Modular Power Supplies are the best option
• Also chosing a proper cable length can help
• Labeling Cables/Conduits With a Label Maker or some sort of marker/grease pencil helps organisation and maitnence
• Increasing regidity via either a Drag Chain, a Flexable Electrical Conduit, or reinforcement of bundles with a semi-rigid fiber such as FDM 3D Printer Filament
• Is near essential for servers, render farms, supercomputers, patch racks etc

External Links

• The Wikipedia Page on Cable Managment
• A Reddit Page for Sharing Pictures of High Quality Cable Managment (FYI Semi-NSFW Subreddit Name, 100% SFW content)
• [https://youtu.be/ZPWoC3N0epM A Youtube Video by the Youtube Channel "Thomas Sanladerer" on Cable Managment (Mainly in FDM 3D Printers , and machines with similar CNC Gantrys