Organizing the spaghetti monster (cords)

[Geraud]

Hello,


I have tried to find this online, but each and every time, people only show the shiny side of their equipment: Nicely aligned controllers and their modules, where the 6 feet cords disappear immediately into a version of the black hole that was recently photographed.


So my question is: can anyone who has these nice setups show me the "behind the scenes?" I want to clean up my clutter, but I am looking for tips on how to make them invisible, while still being able to pull one at a time during replacement/cleaning, and... it has to be electrically safe too.


I am not interested in the front part surrounded by diamonds, but really, how do you deal with all these long cords and cables in the back.



Thank you...

 

[jd371]

This is coming out soon that will help with reducing some of the clutter.



http://hydroswaveengine.com/

 

[Geraud]

Interesting, however... still need to bring electricity to these pumps... here it looks like it is just placing all pump controllers in one box. I only have a single controller, for my VorTech, so that would not do much.


I am also thinking about coax cables to probes etc.

 

[jd371]

Interesting, however... still need to bring electricity to these pumps... here it looks like it is just placing all pump controllers in one box. I only have a single controller, for my VorTech, so that would not do much.


I am also thinking about coax cables to probes etc.

Yeah, but if you have 4 pumps this lets you power them with only one power block instead of each having it's own.

On my tank it's the lighting that has the most wires. Thankfully I have a floating canopy that I can hide all the wires.

 

[STRIPERVIPER]

Wire channels

I had a guy come to my house and organize my electrical cabinet. Wasn?t cheap but it?s so organized now it was worth it. I have over 20 plugs for various pumps, lights,etc. I use my apex eb832 for the stuff I want more controllability on and two dj strips for the remaining stuff. I will post better pictures tomorrow but here?s a basic idea.

 

[STRIPERVIPER]

Idea

It?s actually neater now that I have the dos and ddr

 

[Geraud]

Thanks, so basically you hide the cables and co in these rack-ducts. I was thinking about doing that. Guess I will order some. I used these black spirals that you have for your tubes, but for probes, and ended up regretting it when it was time to replace or clean one. But I will use your idea and put them on the tubes. since these do not get moved around much.


Thanks for the picture!