Circuits in singles - do you tape / tiewrap / or not?

[Phoenix]

Can't work out how to do a vote...

But this was inspired by this image from a facebook group https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15442099_10211414050176992_9047759197348629534_n.jpg?oh=f66c5695e4d7650bd3036c7a1f6bd59c&oe=58FB4B0C

To me, that looks like it could be a pig if 20 years down the line a load of cirucits need to come out, or the board needs changing etc. The neutral and earths might be in correct terminals now... but they seem to migrate over the years.....

I am in favour of strapping each circuit together in the trunking just as it enters the board, and those slide on cable IF markers (on all conductors) are good to have as well.

So who does, and who doesn't?

 

[pewter]

i dont strap.

I do identify cables with stickers

 

[kerching]

I ID with either slide on Partex markers OR printable heat shrink sleeving ( only when it is on offer as it is so F expensive)

 

[rapparee]

I tape each circuit together, just as it comes into the db and inside the db.

 

[Evans Electric]

We usually tape them in the trunking , just outside the board  to save losing track of  the relevant   phases - N- E   

 

[Andy™]

We usually tape them in the trunking , just outside the board  to save losing track of  the relevant   phases - N- E   

same here, usually mark the circuit number on the end too

of course, no-one else has ever does anything like that on a board i need to work on...

 

[binky]

Your dead right there Andy, I hardly ever install singles, and I have a strong dislike for not being able to identify relevant neutrals and earths in a 3 phase board with any certainty.

 

[Tony S]

I would curse whoever loomed the singles in that board to hell and back if I had to do alterations at some point in the future.

BTW. An ex RAF erk taught me to loom cables with butchers twine. Handy for dressing the Sunday roast.

 

[Lurch]

I hate cables being taped together. I do not want covering in sticky goo when I work in a board. People who use tape as a permanent method of securing bunches of cables need taking out and shooting.

I have done it on smaller boards quite often. On boards of that size I often secure cable tie bases to the rear of the board and then leave some loose loops to keep cables in some sort of order. I wouldn't ordinarily loom them tightly like the image in the OP.

 

[Sidewinder]

Grouping factors?