[AusNOG] How do you label?

Aaron Weller // Crucial Paradigm aaron at crucialp.com
Fri Apr 15 17:08:16 EST 2011


Thanks for the suggestions! We ended up going with 2 of the IDExpert 
labellers and ordered a few different labels to see which ones are best 
suited.

Aaron

On 14/04/2011 11:11 AM, John Allan wrote:
> For Brady, the place I buy from is called Power&  Automation - they are
> owned by MMEM these days so I assume that your local D&W or AWM will
> also have them on their stock list or at least be able to point you in
> the direction of someone within their larger group company who knows the
> product.
>
> Also Brady have a outlet finder if you get stuck
> http://www.bradyaust.com.au/brady-australia-distributors.cfm
>
> I generally use the Brady TLS-2200 system with their software interface
> (which is a little horrid, but tolerable if you can generate a CSV file
> for it).
>
> For Fibre patches I use flags (possibly PTLFP-01-425) which stick out in
> the air
> For Cat5 I use wrap arounds PTL-31-427
> For devices, servers, etc I use the traffolyte "style" brady labels in
> varying sizes depending on the device.
> For dist boards and HVAC it is traffolyte all the way
> For structured bundles I insist on either two cable tied flags at either
> end (i.e. 1m and 2m, or 0.3m and 1m) or wraps depending on the
> contractor / where it's going.  Insist on the same for under floor
> commando feeds as well.
>
> I also use PatchSee patch cables for CAT6/CAT6A structured cabling which
> makes tracing a lot easier (for the rare occasion that someone doesn't
> label a cable correctly, the chances of disruption of comms due to "pull
> traces" is close to zero).
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> John
>
>
>




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