Make sure you use good wire for the new corner
modules.
The wire MUST follow the club's official color coding. That means
you need 9 different colored wires.
It would be much better to use
stranded wire instead of solid wire. Stranded wire is much better
for
AC applications and would be more flexible (and less likely to
break) for the ends which are bent and
unbent when connecting the
connectors. I would also suggest that we use a minimum of 18 AWG
wire
to minimize voltage loss.
All that being said, the club could purchase 9 spools of 18 AWG
stranded wire (either locally (I think
Fry's and Tinkertronics sells
spools of wire) or via mail order (less expensive)) in the appropriate
colors.
Alternatively, if we want to settle for solid wire, Home Depot
sells 10 conductor 18 AWG wire by the
foot as "sprinkler wire" and as
"thermostat wire". Another possibility is the 14 AWG stranded wire
that Home Depot sells by the foot. The problem with this wire is
that it is too heavy to go into the
Jones plugs unmodified - you have
to trim the ends down to approximately 18 AWG size with a wire
cutter. The advantage is that they do sell it in all needed
colors.
Also, I would strongly suggest that at least one of the new corner
modules be wired with two female
Jones plugs (4-pin and 6-pin) near
the front of the inside corner so we can connect the wiring harness
from the test transformer, like the Swamp corner module. That
way, if the Swamp module, which is
owned by Jim Smiley, is ever taken
out of service for a show we can still connect the test transformer
during setup.
Ira
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