[HN Gopher] Constructing motorsport grade wiring harnesses
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       Constructing motorsport grade wiring harnesses
        
       Author : leon_sbt
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2021-11-20 17:24 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.rbracing-rsr.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.rbracing-rsr.com)
        
       | chaldron wrote:
       | Thank you for posting this article. I'm in charge of the
       | electronics package of a Formula SAE team, and our wiring
       | harnesses follow many of the practices found in this guide. I
       | personally have been astounded by the fact that many of the
       | assumptions we make with hobbyist-grade electronics go out the
       | window when designing for motorsports. You can expect to find
       | that at some point, water/fuel/oil/brake fluid will fall on your
       | wiring. Seemingly sturdy connections will only misbehave under
       | specific conditions such as high-speed cornering, making them
       | difficult to debug.
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       | Another thing I've also found shocking is how quickly the
       | expenses can rack up. The Deutsch Autosport connectors listed in
       | the article almost universally start at around $30-40 per
       | connector. Heatshrink products are also very pricey, with the
       | additional downside that if you make a mistake in the
       | manufacturing process there is no way to re-use them once they've
       | been cut off.
        
       | h2odragon wrote:
       | Wow. that's an amazing resource.
       | 
       | Also NASA has some good resource, a couple i have links to:
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       | Workmanship Standard for Crimping, Interconnecting...
       | https://nepp.nasa.gov/files/27631/NSTD87394A.pdf
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       | CABLE AND HARNESS SPLICES
       | https://workmanship.nasa.gov/lib/insp/2%20books/links/sectio...
        
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