24 pin brading

Krellor

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I was just about to have a go at braiding my 24 pin extension, and fell at the first hurdle. Getting one end of of their socket , using the staple method, is fairly easy. How do you get the other end out?
Also when ever Ive seen braided extensions the wires go straight from one plug to the other. Mines just a mess, wires crossing over themselves. It seems as if one end is flipped 180 degrees for no reason. If I take all the wires out of one end cant I just put them into their correct socket and have the wires going straight?
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Don't no what to say pal, i had the very same problem with the cables not going straight across....i managed to get away with it on a 6pin pci-e cables, but 24 atx would just look horrid :S
 
Mate, you only need to take one end out.

That's what I did when I sleeved my 24 pin extension.

Just depin one side, slip on a piece of heatshrink, cut sleeve to the correct size, then slide it onto the wire, put the shrink over one end and shrink it to hold that bit in place, then stretch the sleeve out all the way up to the end that you removed, put on the other bit of heatshrink and then heat it up.

Repeat this process for each wire.

As for the mess of wires, just sort this out as you go along mate, it's a doddle once you get through the first couple of wires.

Some people remove all the wires in one go, and label them so they know which order to put them back into the socket, I personally found it easier to just remove one wire at a time, sleeve it and then put it back into the connector, then go onto the wire next to it..
 
You can take them all out of one side and use the other side as a reference to put them back in the right way :) As lony as you mark the "top and mottom" on each connector matching them up again is something a 3 year old could do :)

Post pics when it's done :)
 
Thanks guys , I think I have it sorted. I couldnt figure out what the problem was and why i couldnt depin 1 end , so I cut the top off a 4pin extension to see what I looking at better.
It turns out the the Sumbeam ATX extractor tool isnt long enough to reach into the pins. Now using a flattened paper clip and all's well. Am I glad I spent £12 on the proper tool for the job. In fact all 4 tools in the pack are fairly useless.
And now its daylight I can see there are little numbers stamped onto the plugs so its easy, 1-1, 2-2, and so on. Thanks for your help.
 
There are really two ways to do it - just did it a week ago myself.

The first is to take out one cable at a time from one side and braid it that way. This was you can be fairly confident that you're putting them back into the correct pin. However it can be tough because as you mention the cables are all tangled up and sometimes there is one pin with two cables in it and generally these two cables have more cables between them, meaning that you can't untangle them. Do the pins with two cables last, untangling the single ones as you go.

The other way is to take them all out from the side that plugs into your motherboard. This will make untangling them a hell of a lot easier and they are all colour coded according to this diagram:

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Note that some PSUs no longer have the white -5v pin, for instance the Corsair HX series just have an empty pin instead.

I used a MDPC molex tool to get the pins out, worked great for braiding every component in my system but I think staples work pretty well too

Whatever way you do it though, I recommend double checking all the pins after you're finished but before you plug it back in.
 
rjkoneill said:
mines going strong, braided three power supplies with it now

i fail to see why they have a bad rep, i will put it down to user error
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Agreed 110%.

I blame noobs using it.

It can't be that bad as I did this with it:

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RoEy
 
RoEy said:
Agreed 110%.

I blame noobs using it.

It can't be that bad as I did this with it:

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RoEy
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Nothing like being called a noob for pointing out a fact. The tool is too short to reach the pin levers, I've looked at the pins with the top off the plug cut open, and it doent reach! If the tool is too short, its too short. I've seen your work and its very impressive, and as I've never done anything like this before, maybe I was doing it wrong. But it seems im not alone here.

Anyway I finished this awhile back, but figured you'd all seen braided 24pins before so never posted a pic.
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