Cable Labels (1 Viewer)

Hi all,

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but here goes. I have a modest home theater that I need to disassemble. Unfortunately, I have not done a very good job at cable management and have a tangled mess of wires behind my entertainment center. As I disconnect all the cables, I would like to label them to make it easier to reconnect everything at a later time. What is a good way to label them? What kind of labels should I use? Thanks in advance for your advice

PatD

if you have a Lable Maker you can make lables really easy.

3M has some wire labeling stuff. they have some number tape with 0-9 that you can wrap around the wire to assign a numbet to each wire. I use this when I work on my car. Before I pull a wire I mark the wire and its plug location.

Or you could use some masking tape and a sharpie.

Hope that helps

A system like:
Give each a letter - DVD =A, Reciever =B
Then each connection on the dvd etc a number audio right =1...
then a cable on one side would havew A4 and the other side B3 ...or something like that

And lest we forget, there's always the Brother P-Touch, or for that Holiday flair, Martha Stewart.

Thanks, for the advice, everyone. I will probably go with some tape and a fine point marker.

PatD

Radio Shack makes some lables with a white section, and then clear plastic tape that wraps around to protect the ink.

My advice: DONT try to label cables so you 'remember' where they came/went. This is too complex to do right (and likely you will want to wire differently in your new place).

My advice:

- Plan to put the receiver/Amp on the bottom shelf of your rack.

- On the top shelves, put the DVD player, VCR, Game systems (things you touch). Put remote-only devices above the amp (making sure to leave 6-8 inches of space above the amp for cooling).

- Plan to bundle your power cords to one side and let the interconnects dangle down the middle. The speaker wires should naturally flow away without coming near any interconnects.

Now you may need to buy a few new cables, but you have a better layout.

Label the power-cords. Put A/B/C labels on each end.

Label the interconnects with A/B/C labels on each end as well.


The point is to be able to TRACE what wire comes from X and goes to Y. Not define that one cable is "SVide feed from DVD player to receiver".

Hope this helps.