Exactly a month ago on the Memorial Day weekend, I started that Ikea Detolf Dioder Project in which I have finally managed to install the much needed lighting system to my Ikea Detolf, however, I left a vital part of the project unfinished on that day – to manage the exit wiring harness.
I really didn’t know what to do at that time, first each of the Dioder has the exact length power cable toward the transformer, meaning by the time the I finish routing the cables inside the Detolf, the exit wire length would be different for each of the cable. See the power adapter hanging in the middle of the air? Just bloody awful looking >.>;
My main goal here is to hide the power adapter on the ground so I can’t see it, luckily I have saved all the extra cables from previous Dioder installations so I finally decided to splice all the DC power wires (in my opinion, it’s relatively safe to do custom work on the DC side of the wiring, since it’s low voltage and low current) so they each have equal length at the end. So I gathered all of my tools and the extra Dioder power cables and began splicing them into equal lengths.
Here I slipped a little heat shrink tube in before hand so I can insulate the solder joints after I am done.
Slipped the heat shrink tube over the solder joints so the wires won’t short to each other.
Testing the connectivity after I finished all the splicing. It was simple DC wiring so there were’t many chances to screw up as long as I was careful to match up the wiring pair.
After everything was tested out, I slipped large diameter split sleeve over the wiring bundle, everything is nice and neat now with the power adapter sitting pretty at the end of the sleeving.
Got to manage the exit point so it’s nice and neat unlike the way I left it a month ago!
And we have the finish product! The only outstanding task now is to find a way to tie the split sleeve to the corner of the Detolf, which won’t be too hard to do!
Edit: Added photo with0ut ambient light
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Ugh, wires are the devil >_<
Nice job with what you did with them though!
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The only way to properly manage wires and cables is to add cable slack storage system, that’s really the only way to clean up the mess that by that extra length wire. Luckily I do that to earn my livelihood so it’s easy for me :3
I have been thinking of getting a glass case for my figures and I want to know if its worth it?
Oh hi Otaku Dan, welcome. I am not sure if I am the right person to ask about “All Glass Cabinet” because personally I hated it lol… I prefer own my invention dust shield +1 as shown here.
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I am really really picky on the dust accumulation on the figure and I do everything in my power to prevent it from happening.
But all that aside, Glass Cabinet has its purpose and it’s useful for what it is. Most figure collectors these days seems to prefer the Ikea Detolf, but instead of me bashing it right here I have made several references in my site about why I dislike them, you are welcome to look them up if you are interested.
Holy crap! That detolf looks so damn good now XD Good job, man!
The last picture I took with the ambient light out really make it stand out much more
You actually already spotted my recent entry before I could thank you or link back to your original post here but how you did the Detolf + Dioder combo helped me quite a bit to check out and decide how to install it too. Thanks. ^^
Ahhh, I was browsing in hikky’s website at the time and he was talking about his new blog roll and stuff, I clicked on it and there was your Detolf + Dioder installation right on the very top of the list. I felt compelled to click on it and see what you were up to that’s all :3
That’s my pleasure to be able to of help for your own project, it’s nothing much but if I was going to put Dioder in my Detolf, might as well take it seriously.