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vk6flab@lemmy.radio 5 days agoIf it’s not breaking due to movement, but only due to strain, putting the joint at the power bank seems like the logical choice. You can use cable sheathing or heat shrink where the damage currently occurs as strain relief and abrasion protection.
One other thing.
You mention a pouch. Have you considered how to deal with your power bank if it suddenly self-ignites?
lennyaa@pawb.social 4 days ago
About the power bank safety: The powerbank is easily accessible so I can rip it out if needed. In such a worst case scenario the first thing would be to remove the entire fursuit head first as that’s the fastest thing, before ripping out the power bank though and after removing the head when my irl head is safe is the time to think about what to do with the power bank.
The suggestion about moving the joint to the power bank: Thing is, there are 4 fans, which I connect with a custom 4x Y splitter with a 5 to 12v step up converter to the USB port of the powerbank. The fans are removable but as they are hard to position you can basically consider them semi permanently mounted. The cables then go vertically down, where the 4 connectors all converge to the custom 5v usb to 12v RCY Y-splitter step up module where they get all plugged in. That 5 to 12v step up module then get’s plugged in to the powerbank. Each fan has to have it’s own connector as it’s not possible to solder inside the suit head and that’s the only way to loop all the wires through the small cable loops to then connect them all together at the Y splitter.
In order to put the joint at the power bank, I’d have to somehow more or less attach a mount mechanism or something to the powerbank itself so that it holds the splitter module. The place where the powerbank is, is very very limited. When purchasing the power bank I specifically had to chose one which is very slim and as small as possible. So I can’t really put anything else where the powerbank is, so no mechanics to hold the cable joints there. I can basically only plug in a USB cable into the powerbank and that’s it.
Also, I can’t add anything to the powerbank that makes it harder to remove, as after each use of the fursuit head, I have to remove the powerbank to recharge it (and later add it back) and I simply can’t fiddle with any complicated mechanisms after use. It has to be really quick, so essentially it can only be as much as unplugging a usb cable.
To the heat shrinking: I have already tried that it does not work as it simply slips of the RCY plug.
(sry if the comment is a bit chaotic, wrote it at night time)