You should know how to coil cables

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• tuckerm@feddit.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is a 10/10 YSK tip. I haven’t had to untangle my headphones or charging cable after I learned this.

  Here is the same trick with a smaller cable, probably more like what most of us are coiling up every day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fsvANAT3yg&t=160s (start at 2:40)

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  • bob_lemon@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My phone decided to play this with AI generated German audio (which I can probably deactivate in Tubular, will check in a second). They must have trained the choice on freaking 90s infomercials, because it sounds cavils like the bad dubs we got on those.

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    • deafboy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If they are training on historical dubs, just be thankful you’re not Polish.

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  • XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve been wrapping headphones in a figure 8 across my devil’s horns, speaker first. The plug end can then be wrapped ~5 times around the crossover and pulled through the loop opposite the one it just came from. It accomplishes the same overall effect of reversing the twist each cycle. It also serves as a neat party trick to show people how they could have had better headphone management =(current year - 2015) years ago

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  • arsCynic@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And I love you too.

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• Godnroc@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This technique is often referred to as “over, under” as apposed to the more common “over, over” because it prevents damage or cable memory from twisting in one direction. Frequently used in the audio/video industry.

  The biggest downside is that if you pass the end of the cable through the middle of the bundle you will create a knot every other loop. These can quickly be unknotted by gathering the knots together in line and passing an end back through. Also makes a decent magic trick.

  A cable tie, hook-and-loop fastener, or a piece of rope or tie-line with a clove hitch in the middle is essential to secure cables while in transit or storage.

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• enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For anyone working on or around stages:

  Most sane production companies standardise on over-under. Even if you find some other method superior (nothing is), you’ll get thrown out headfirst if you don’t follow the standard. Having a tech fuck around with a non-compliant cable during a changeover is far too risky.

  Should be noted that there are special cases. For example, thicccc cables (i.e. 24ch analog multi) that have their own dedicated cases often go down in an 8 instead - easier to pull out and you can use a smaller case. Thank god for digital audio.

  (Also, when using over-under correctly, you can throw the cable and it will land straight without any internal stresses winding it up like a spring)

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  • coaxil@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The thicc boys are called, horse cocks, and not enough kids have worked with them these days ;p

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    • enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      For the record - analog multis can burn in hell. Nowadays, not running all of the show over Cat6 should be criminal.

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• who@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you find “over/under” confusing, that’s probably because it’s arguably misleading terminology.

  You might find it more intuitive to think of this as “outside/inside”, meaning that each new loop is made by bringing the free end up to your hand either outside (away from the already coiled cable) or inside (between the already coiled cable and itself) as it forms the new loop.

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• helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Relevant xkcd

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• Theatomictruth@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Also do this with garden hoses and braided style ropes

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• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Same effect, but I learned this differently: always “over”, but apply a twist with thumb & index finger every time i loop the cable. Faster once you get it.

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  • Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No, it’s not the same effect. Your way just forces the cable into a neat-looking coil, but it twists the conductors inside. That’s why when you uncoil it, you get a corkscrew that won’t lay flat, tangles more easily, and eventually wears the cable out. The method in the video avoids putting a twist in the cable at all - so when you uncoil it, it lies flat, doesn’t tangle, and lasts longer.

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    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe I didn’t explain it well enough, but what I learned does exactly the same as what the video shows, but with a different movement.

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  • multifariace@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nah. Just grab the audio cable by the end and tightly wrap it around your elbow and hand. It’s super fast. Then tie the other end around the middle of the loop to hold it all together.

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    • dizzy@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That damages the cable over time. Which is the point of this YSK

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How in the fuck is this over-under method really any different from the first way he was showing how people do it wrong? 🤨

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  • grahamja@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wrapping it around your arm stretches and pulls at the inner cabling. It isn’t a single massive copper pipe in there, its numerous thin guage copper wires wrapped around each other. Wrapping it around your arm puts kinks and folds in the cable that eventually snap those little wires over time.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not the arm one, but the way before that. Over-over.

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• arsCynic@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I love you.

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• sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wish I knew a way to not tangle kite string

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• lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  At least it’s not that weird braid thing that was all over youtube a while back.

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  • unphazed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That one is only useful for pull ropes. That method somehow magically gives it like 4x the strength while being half the length. I had an arborist buddy show it to me and he explained they use it for moving trees before they start cutting near downed lines.

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