Hi everyone.
I've been at home for the last 10 days away from my 'real' job, non stop wiring this up. 4am starts, going through to past midnight some days.
It is almost complete (wiring anyway), and now I am waiting on the IDC cable and connectors to do all the card links, and a few patch bay jacks to finish off!
This has been a mind bending exercise of repetition.
over 100 BICC connectors, 2 MRACs, and 6 EDAC connectors now completed!!!
Here are some photos.
Wiring station setup. This was 'home' for many days for me.
MRAC M2 cable with pins, ready for insertion. 49 signal cables.
MRAC partial pins complete. Not punched down fully.
MRAC M2 complete.
Both M1 and M2 complete. M1 only had 26 signal cables, plus power. No producer panel connections.
MRAC pin soldering jig. Just use two female pins in a vice grip, held up by a roll of gaffer.
EDAC pin jig. I found an old prototype board and some pin-end EDAC pins. Really sped up the work.
EDAC pin insertions.
EDACs complete.
Console really starting to look like a console.
I may have BBQ'd something in the 651, when a temporary piece of panel, shorted across the traces. First smoke of the build.