I use a Brother label maker AND clear heat shrink.

The label material sticks very well to the wires and the clear heat
shrink is so it NEVER comes off. I have wires 3 years old with this
labeling and it is not discolored or too stiff.

Let's you use words instead of just numbers. My eyes go a bit buggy
looking at all sorts of numbers and if I'm trying my patience tracing
wires I prefer to have it spelled out in English.

Bart D. Hull

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Highflyer wrote:
"MJC" wrote in message
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Looking for some input:
I don't really see a need to buy several different colors of electrical
wire for my homebuilt when you can easily use just one color (white?) to
do
it all. The only thing you then need to do is to mark the ends of the
wires
to identify the circuits and where it all goes (easy enough). In fact,
your
electrical scematics would be even better if each terminal were identified
with a proprietary number rather than just a color of wire or colored
marker.
So what I'm asking is if anyone of you have gone the wire marking
route,
and if so, what type and brand of tape, or collars, or whatever you have
found to be not only frugal, but also to be permanent and not fall off at
some time later?

TIA
MJC




WalMart has a minature tape stamper that makes nice small tags. Get
several lengths of CLEAR heat shrink tubing and use this procedure.

1. slip a length of clear heatshrink over the wire.
2. crimp the appropriate termination
3. stick on the number from your drawings and wire list
4. slide down the heat shrink tubing to cover the tag and the butt end of
the termination
5. zap it with your handy heat gun until it is snug.

Works great. If you don't like the little marker tapes you can always use
Jim's option and put the number on with colored markers using resistor color
codes. Black Brown Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet Gray White

Highflyer