RE: Cable Identification

[Nigel Orr <Nigel.Orr@xxxxxxx>]

At 10:53 02/06/00 +0100, you wrote:
>The Keith Doxey colour tape mthod has worked a treat for me James (link

Mine is slightly different, maybe the details will be useful to some
folk.  I use a wide tape band for the room colour, just taped round as a
spiral (eg grn/ylw is outside, red is kitchen etc), with a narrow black
stripe over the wide band for upstairs rooms.

Because the room is a wider band, it's quite easy to spot all the cables
that go to one room, and then pick the right one from those, using the
other coloured bands.  If all the bands are the same size, it can be a bit
harder to find the right colour combination in a jumble of reds, yellows,
whites, browns and blacks.

Generally I only use 2 bands (wide for the room, normal for the function)
because I don't have multiple outlets for ethernet/phone/a/v in the same
room (mostly).  But a 3rd band would see to that, with different colours
for outlet 1, outlet 2 etc.  That's probably the same as Keith's system?

Don't go for anything too fancy, the engineering KISS (keep it simple,
stupid!) principle applies strongly!  It doesn't have to look beautiful, it
just has to be understandable.

Hope that helps someone...

Nigel


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