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How do you organise your power cables?

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I personally use:

Back Power board = essentials

Black Cable - DO NOT UNPLUG, like for my desktop or hdd's

Grey / Beige  - Monitors in order, left = left monitor middle = middle & right = right.

Front Power Board = Nonessential

Examples such as clocks and phone charger.

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With an IKEA SIGNUM

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i dont.

What do you do when you don't need something anymore? How do you know what to unplug?

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What do you do when you don't need something anymore? How do you know what to unplug?

follow the wire. simple lol

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What do you do when you don't need something anymore? How do you know what to unplug?

 

Follow the wire back, or just randomly unplug things until the thing I want turns off

 

I rarely ever unplug anything, I have like 4 of them labelled up for my server and my PC, but other than that, nothing is labelled or organised 

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I use twist ties, cable ties, U pin nails thingies for wires. and a shit ton of Hot Glue (FUCK YEAH BARNACULES)

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follow the wire. simple lol

Or you yank at the cable you want out and keep yanking until it comes >:D TEHUHUEHUHUH

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I've just memorised where they all are, if anything new needs to be added I do have some free sockets at the other end of my desk.

 

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shove everything into the mesh basket nailed to the bottom of my desk

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I guess i have over over the top cable management, because I had 6 computer set up on my desk at on stage.

I had labels like "Windows 95 w/ IBM CPU" 

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My cables have different ends. The big one is for my tower, the thin one with the thick cable is for my now dead monitor, and the small one with thin cable is for my speaker. Anything else will be my chargers, which  are  obviously different

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Cable clips, velcro straps, a cable box, and a cable organiser kit that I bought on impulse at the hardware store.

 

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Velcro ties... lots of velcro ties...

 

and metal hooks...

 

I should get it organized again...

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Lots of twist ties, and just remembering where everything goes (PS2 and TV on the left side of my surge protector, second monitor and rig on right side).

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I was thinking I should get myself a bunch of those labels to put on my cables to say "Monitor C" "Monitor L" "Monitor R" "Computer" "Router" and so on...

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