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What is this? Sleeving problem...

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jadawgis732

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Hi, so I'm sleeving my BFG EX1200W down to the PSU and removing unneeded hardwired lines. (SATA Molex PCI-e and 4/8 pin EPS). I have the PSU opened and just finished cutting and heatshrinking the wires I won't use and ran into this. How do I sleeve past, through, or over this?? I have the necessary tools- soldering iron, 18AWG, female ATX pins...

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i would have both wires in the same sleeve until a little past the caps. then i would sleeve the wires separately from there to the connector. i would put heatshrink over the point where i went from 1 sleeve to 2 to cover up the junction. personally, i wouldnt fuck around unsoldering/soldering the caps/diodes, but that just me. i have the same type crap and more on my tpq1200 oc version, and i didnt even unisleeve it. i wrapped all the wires with black electrical tape (so the colored wires wouldnt show thru) and sleeved over that. it doesnt look as good as unisleeving, but it looks a lot better than factory sleeving.
 
I'm curious as to WTF those caps are supposed to be for. (Assuming they are caps...)
 
You're going to have to use a single piece of sleeving to cover both wires past the capacitor. Cover the junction with heatshrink and it should be fine. The capacitors are there to provide additional filtering.
 
Problem with that is that the capacitors are very close to the 24Pin connector. So, I'm assuming I can cut the wire close to the PSU, slide the sleeving on, solder, and heatshrink? I've also had someone say not to cover those capacitors with heatshrink. Can anyone concur?

If I'm able to cut the wire close to the PSU and resolder why couldn't I just move the capacitor closer to the PSU?
 
You should ideally be removing the pins from the connector, not cutting the wires. If you have no other choice, then what you suggest should be alright. As for not heatshrinking over the capacitors, that is actually a good point. Exposing electrolytic capacitors to high heat can damage them. Try sleeving over them and placing the heatshrink farther down, or just sleeve the entire wire pair together along its whole length so you don't have to worry about that altogether.
 
I'm going to remove the pins from the connectors. But think about it. If the two wires are joined as they are sleeving past the joint will be a problem.
 
That depends on how much the sleeving you're using can expand. If it's large enough to go over the joint then there's no problem.
 
1/2 inch sleeving should go over that no problem. you will need to unbundle the wiring for the 4/6 pin connector and sleeve that separately from the 24 pin wiring.
 
he means it will be a problem because the 2 wires that are joined do not necessarilly end up going in to the connector right next to each other. so at some point they will have to be sleeved separately, or a decent amount of bare wire will be showing. i dont see there being a problem with sleeving a little past the caps over both wires, then separate sleeving to the connector.
 
I would remove all the connectors from the wires. and then the ones with the capacitators i would put inside the psu housing

solder joints inside psu ---> tiny piece of wire --->capacitators --->startsleeving on wire leaving capicitator--->sleeved wire leaves psu housing through hole----->sleeved wire continues all the way to atx connection.
this way you can still have single sleeved wires and hide the capacitators withing the psu housing
 
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