Ways to do nice looking wiring

[EJRC]

Hi Guys,

Its my first post on this forum if introducing is not counting.

How do you guys who have a lot of electronics installed in your car doing wiring nicely? Couple of question:

1. Do you do every connection with connector or solder every connection? I like doing with connectors because if i need to remove something its a extra work, but every connector takes space.
2. If you have gears and other additional servos do you bring all the 3 wires to the receiver or do you bring just a signal cable and take power from additionall bec?

My trx4 1/10 at the moment has diesel speaker, led bar, 4 servos, esc, additional esc for the winch. I have a 10 ch receiver and it has only couple channels left after this set and wiring looks like a big mess….

 

[xjtorc]

The absolute best way to clean wiring is learning how to solder and learning how to assemble the different connector types so you can snip and shorten everything on board.

Step 1 is to remove all electrical tape and go from there.

 

[EJRC]

The absolute best way to clean wiring is learning how to solder and learning how to assemble the different connector types so you can snip and shorten everything on board.

Step 1 is to remove all electrical tape and go from there.

Thank you

 

[Tunedfrog]

Zip ties is something you need to keep on the work bench.

 

[CertifiedMike]

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Use heat shrink tubing. Marine shrink tubing has hot glue in it. Gives a bit more strength and is better protected from water.

I have some 'too long' servo wires that need shortening.
I need to buy all the stuff for that too. Not looking forward to messing with the tiny wires!

 

[PonkyKong]

Split loom . Mesh loom. And color coded shrink tube.

 

[CreepyQuarryCrawler]

@PonkyKong
Just beat me to it!

You've had great advice but the other trick is to black the wiring out. That involves heat shrink tubing, wiring loom, etc.

It also helps to try and keep things visually looking straight-ish and not all bunched up.

There is a lot going on in this truck, it was difficult to visually hide all the wires.

I used all the tricks here; shortening connectors, wire loom of various sizes, heat shrink tubing, lots of zip ties, etc.

I even made custom wire holders out of scrap pieces of lexan to give me mounts to keep the wiring "tucked".

 

[Jamr]

Cut and solder what you can to size , then loom, heat shrink and then stuff what you can into a big water proof box.
Then if you get into lighting, mount it all up and in the body.
This car has sound, full lights (front, back and interior), driver body movement and a FPV camera mount and all the wiring is pretty hidden until you look under the body.

 

[EJRC]

@PonkyKong
Just beat me to it!

You've had great advice but the other trick is to black the wiring out. That involves heat shrink tubing, wiring loom, etc.

It also helps to try and keep things visually looking straight-ish and not all bunched up.

There is a lot going on in this truck, it was difficult to visually hide all the wires.

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I used all the tricks here; shortening connectors, wire loom of various sizes, heat shrink tubing, lots of zip ties, etc.

I even made custom wire holders out of scrap pieces of lexan to give me mounts to keep the wiring "tucked".

Damn this looks clean!

 

[EJRC]

Cut and solder what you can to size , then loom, heat shrink and then stuff what you can into a big water proof box.
Then if you get into lighting, mount it all up and in the body.
This car has sound, full lights (front, back and interior), driver body movement and a FPV camera mount and all the wiring is pretty hidden until you look under the body.

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This is just insane how clean it is looking!!!

 

[CreepyQuarryCrawler]

Cut and solder what you can to size , then loom, heat shrink and then stuff what you can into a big water proof box.

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