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All my data cables I keep rolled up together. There's 5 that go from scope to car/PC. I roll them up and put them in one big ziplock style clear bag. That's quite neat.
When set up, I loop them on the scope's tripod such that if I snag them when walking around it doesn't rip them out of the control pad etc, i know the GM-8's tripod is strong enough to not budget in such a scenario.
I have them tied together with twist ties every metre or 2.
I am going to very shortly change from this though. I realised a while ago I can do away with all them and just have 1 USB from car to scope, with a hub at the scope. I can plug the various USB devices in to that at the scope, including RS232 <--> USB converters. That will mean significantly less cables, as the ones at the scope will be short. Currently I use 5m USB extension cables and RS232 cables between scope and car.
Cables are a bit of a nightmare sometimes. In the observatory I have worse problems and am trying to work out ducting to have 2 ducts - one for power and one for data, going around the particularly bad parts of the wall where there's 21 power plugs and countless data cables.
Roger.
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