Cable management

Emporia Energy Community Product Ideas Cable management

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      megachase
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      Great product at a great price point! I have 2 suggestions and a comment that hopefully shouldn’t affect the latter.

      1). Numbering the CT’s in advance on the clamp end and again on the plug end made installation quite a bit easier, I ran out of P-touch tape in the process! Since you sell them in sets of 8, I would be happy if the main unit just came with a sheet of labels 1-16 (squares for the clamp ends, strip for the plug/cable end) that i could put on myself.

      2). For those of us with older homes or narrower panel enclosures, it’s pretty crowded in there already and running these wires is pretty tough without adding a bit of strain on things, and of course I’m one who cannot rest until the wiring is tidy. Without re-inventing the wheel, can the 2.5mm (and 3.5mm) cord sets be sourced without having to be bundled and tied? That kinky cable memory will not give up! If they could just be shipped bulk style in a loop, I think that would make cable dressing 10x easier! It would also remove the temptation many might have to reuse all those twisty little metal whiskers in their service panel!

      Speaking of loose wires, in my 40 slot panel, the only free slots were too far away to use the provided power harness, so I opted to use closer existing breakers, utilizing the provided wire nuts and jumper. Like I said, it’s crowded in there and I’m really not comfortable with hot wire nuts with no strain relief down the side of my panel. I think the solution is a quad 15A 2-pole tandem breaker with a common trip in the middle. That’s what I plan to do and would advise others to do as well.

      Thanx again, love the product.

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      BrianR
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      I used a Sharpie on mine, 1 through 16 on the back of the clamp, again on the head of the 2.5mm jack.  I’m usually a ptouch labeler, too, but I’m going to see these so infrequently I didn’t bother.  Definitely helped keep things from getting out of hand!

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