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TIDYNESS of cables
The above picture is a good example, DOMO has used crimp(or solder) ferrells on wire terminations which is commendable but unnecessary as the blue terminal blocks used have flat 'blades' inside that the screw clamps against (it does not clamp directly onto the cable)(although I suspect the large cable size meant that it was not possible to get the cable in the terminal block!)
The rest of the wiring is just spaghetti!
Over a decade of installing comfort and it is true that when I come across untidy wiring it invariably means that the rest of the system has been cobbled together. Untidy wiring goes hand in hand with an unreliable system.
DOMO please do not take offence none is meant.
What to do -
The problems are as follows:
- Comfort has many combinations of parts is several chassis/frames, pcbs can readily be stacked on each other.
- There are no 'designated' cable routes, no cable restraints and no suggestion any where that that wiring need to be kept tidy.
The fix.
- make the casings shallower and dont allow stacking of pcbs.
- provide cable fixing points at least down the side of pcb's and include a pack of cable or veltro ties or similar.
- Show pictures of suggested ways to manage cables and add a paragraph to the install documentation.
- In any hard ware upgrade make ALL of the bellbox connections appear at ONE location.
Rant finished -
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