Somebody, invent this please.

[destrekor]

This is for the people who have invention skills. Or maybe the smarts to go about making patents and getting things in production, somewhere.

All wiring these days is color coded, is it not?
Can someone... anyone... get it going that in addition to color labels, wires also have some other visual identification system, like a series of hash marks or symbols? Maybe letters or numbers?

Just typing my thoughts... it came up in a conversation with someone today.

It would make life easy for those of us who are afflicted with color deficiency. Everything in life can be adapted to, and with a little ingenuity, colored wiring isn't too difficult to work with, especially if you just find manufacturers that do things in a way you can work with more readily.

Maybe give me credit if someone goes about this? That's all I ask. Inventing things and raking in licensing fees would be great and all, but I don't understand that end of the product world one bit, and hell... sometimes I just want to go about doing things that others, and ultimately everyone, can benefit from.

You're not getting rid of us genetically abnormal people any time soon (though half of me argues nature dropped the ball there, and we humans are too pathetic to breed properly... ()).

 

[jhu]

No. These design decisions are in place precisely to limit the number of you mutants around these parts.

 

[Jeff7]

Yes. I propose a complex series of symbols for this purpose:

Wires which are currently colored red will bear these symbols, in sequence: RED

Yellow wires will be denoted by: YELLOW

And green wires will be denoted by: ÝrØwj☺╚

For the most part, it's a simple system.

 

[SKORPI0]

D:

 

[icyroy05]

Typical hand out thread from color cripples.

 

[lxskllr]

Yes. I propose a complex series of symbols for this purpose:

Wires which are currently colored red will bear these symbols, in sequence: RED

Yellow wires will be denoted by: YELLOW

And green wires will be denoted by: ÝrØwj☺╚

For the most part, it's a simple system.

:^D

 

[edro]

A lot of newer European multiconductor cables have numbers stamped on them.
All conductor jackets are black and each conductor jacket is hot stamped with 1,2,3,4,etc.

 

[SlitheryDee]

The idea of a colorblind person trying to wire stuff up has too much lulz potential to fix.

 

[Matthiasa]

Eh using a multimeter works just as well.. just don't actually short the stuff... molten copper is kind of scary.

 

[destrekor]

The idea of a colorblind person trying to wire stuff up has too much lulz potential to fix.

hey! I find offense in this humor!
Though I always find humor in my fail!
:biggrin:

It's been awhile since I've actually wired anything. Was in CCNA training and was capable of receiving the first CCNA cert but... by the time I was ready for the cert I was no longer interested in the field.
And now I am. And 4 years out of training, and almost wrapped up with a degree that is completely unrelated to anything technical.

At least soon I'll be in the Signal Corps, as a 2LT with a Sig Company.
Though if everything stays the way it is, a year from now I will still be 2 months shy of going to my branch training.
But hopefully I can use that training, and some self-studying on my own, to get some kind of entry into a related civilian job so try to make headway into signal security (that's the goal, as of now).

 

[destrekor]

Yes. I propose a complex series of symbols for this purpose:

Wires which are currently colored red will bear these symbols, in sequence: RED

Yellow wires will be denoted by: YELLOW

And green wires will be denoted by: ÝrØwj☺╚

For the most part, it's a simple system.

no doubt.

Like one make of Cat5 cable I worked with in school, where the it was either the Green and Brown looked identical. I know they weren't, but my eyes are fail!

Another make we had, I had no problems with. Actually saying "this color is this, that one is this" didn't quite work either, but I could say "this one is not that, that one is not this other one"
Because with most wiring, if you are controlling the layout on both sides, the color going where doesn't matter, as long as any individual wire is put at the correct spot on either end.

Only working with one side, and colors aren't easily discernible... that's where the lulz will probably come into play.

 

[Red Squirrel]

D:

Haha that looks like the labeling in our wire closets. Completely meaningless random numbers and letters, and the jacks have a whole other non consistent random number and letters, that do not actually match anything in the closets.

 

[Red Squirrel]

no doubt.

Like one make of Cat5 cable I worked with in school, where the it was either the Green and Brown looked identical. I know they weren't, but my eyes are fail!

Another make we had, I had no problems with. Actually saying "this color is this, that one is this" didn't quite work either, but I could say "this one is not that, that one is not this other one"
Because with most wiring, if you are controlling the layout on both sides, the color going where doesn't matter, as long as any individual wire is put at the correct spot on either end.

Only working with one side, and colors aren't easily discernible... that's where the lulz will probably come into play.

Yeah must suck to be color or partially color blind.

I remember in high school when I had auto cad class, one of the students was color blind and always got the colors wrong, it took a while for the teacher to realize he was color blind LOL. He'd sometimes ask another student "is this line green like he asked?"

 

[iGas]

I use to identify cables by number code & now I apply that with more stringent numbering codes for valve & pumps.

3 digits:

000-099 for sub soil floors (basement)
100-199 for first floor, and so on.....

Then there will be a code list with colour stickers indicates what type of service that they are for. The identification list will have location, type of service/s, and colour code.

 

[Jeff7]

no doubt.

Like one make of Cat5 cable I worked with in school, where the it was either the Green and Brown looked identical. I know they weren't, but my eyes are fail!

We've got to get to work on genetic engineering.
Let's see....
Mosquitoes can see IR, some insects can see UV, some birds have 4 different kinds of cones, and cuttlefish can distinguish differences in light polarization.

Our eyes really suck, even when they work normally.

 

[destrekor]

We've got to get to work on genetic engineering.
Let's see....
Mosquitoes can see IR, some insects can see UV, some birds have 4 different kinds of cones, and cuttlefish can distinguish differences in light polarization.

Our eyes really suck, even when they work normally.

Seriously.

But while you dream of fanciful views in a spectrum we don't currently see, I'd just like to see all of the spectrum I was promised!

And after the drug-trip-like intensity wore off, THEN I'd crave the new uncharted territory of "OMG you look terrible in that UV wavelength!"
Think we'd have a new form a racism? We'd be seeing different colors.

Imagine what those pasteys look like! And the gingers?! They're not human! :twisted:
:biggrin:

 

[vshah]

at least you can still play with resistors


o wait.

 

[JujuFish]

Yes. I propose a complex series of symbols for this purpose:

Wires which are currently colored red will bear these symbols, in sequence: RED

Yellow wires will be denoted by: YELLOW

And green wires will be denoted by: ÝrØwj☺╚

For the most part, it's a simple system.

I vote for this. ☺

 

[Jeff7]

Seriously.

But while you dream of fanciful views in a spectrum we don't currently see, I'd just like to see all of the spectrum I was promised!

And after the drug-trip-like intensity wore off, THEN I'd crave the new uncharted territory of "OMG you look terrible in that UV wavelength!"
Think we'd have a new form a racism? We'd be seeing different colors.

Imagine what those pasteys look like! And the gingers?! They're not human! :twisted:
:biggrin:

No. That'd never happen. Ever.:awe:


Hey! UVie! What're you lookin' at?


(UV. Blacklight.)
*cue the "that's racist" GIF*D:

<Cleveland>
Oh that's just wrong.
</Cleveland>

 

[dighn]

an augmented reality visor could be programmed to identify colors. the downside is you'll look like a cyborg from the 80's.