I seem to have nadgered my knee and while I wait for it to get better (things like this usually do) or the booked appointment with an orthopod arrives I’ve been trying not to clamber around the car too energetically. Hence, I’ve made a fairly determined start on the wiring.
So far, this amounts to setting about the back of the switch panel with some gusto, and it now looks like the photo on the right. This is actually mostly done, and shouldn’t take more than a couple of hours to complete. Once done, it’ll mount into the car and a stack of other cables will plug into the connectors hanging off this, some of which you can see. As I mentioned, the idea this time is that everything goes through this panel, so there’s a series of simple cables that go from a connector to each of, for example, the front of the car, the data logger, and the engine.
Hence, once this panel is done I can mount it in the car and make the individual cables. Each of those will be rather easier than this panel which, as you can tell, has rather a lot of wires and connections on it. You can probably see that I’m a bit manic about trying to do wiring neatly. I’m really a professional electron herder that got sidetracked into writing computer software. As such, I’m paranoid about connections; of all the problems that appeared with the various large bits of electronics that I’ve been involved, the vast majority were about connections of one form or another. Hence attention to detail and an attempt at neatness. Mind you, I end up using a quite prodigious quantity of tie-wraps. Most of which are put in place and cut off a few minutes later when another wire goes the same way. I’ve also, as usual, drawn out the complete wiring diagram. That way I’ll get a decent record of the whole thing along with wire colours and sizes to use when things go wrong later.