Hi,
sorry for the completely left-field question but I’m trying to put the finishing touches to my first Imp project and I want to mount 2 x IR Temp Sensors on the end of some semi-rigid (but yet flexible) cable so that I can point the sensors anywhere I need to from time to time without having to constantly build / rebuild brackets.
I’ve often seen inspection cameras with the lens mounted at the remote end of such a flexible cable sheath but short of buying an inspection camera & “harvesting” the sheath, I can’t seem to find where to buy it.
Here’s a link to a pic of the kind of thing I’m looking for.
Cool, thanks @mjkuwp94,
yeah, I want it to hold it’s shape as much a possible so I don’t have to re/build brackets each time I move the sensor into another position.
Yeah,
I’ve got a heap of those but to be honest, the magnetic flux on all the ones I’ve used are pretty weak (they are designed for pretty stable bases i.e. no g-forces) so I didn’t consider them.
The other thing would be that if a solid arm got somehow tangled-up in the brakes, that could cause an issue, whereas the flexible conduit would (hopefully) be pushed straight out of harms way & even if it did get very “involved” I’d hope that the brakes would simply “mash” the conduit up and “spit” it out without causing any problems.
For anyone interested, I managed to find a manufacturer of this kind of product in Mattoon IL (USA): http://www.anacondasealtite.com/index.html
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I’ve sent them an email inquiry to see if they can supply me with a small quantity or suggest someone who can.
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I’ll let you know how that goes.
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Cheers,
duBe
dube68, did we get you hooked up with a sample? If so, did it work out? sry, i was trolling our backlinks and noticed this site. but I like to hear about the non-traditional uses of our conduits.
Hi tlindsay,
no, they wouldn’t provide a small sample, instead pointed me to a re-seller who would only provide me the a full roll at quite an expense. I asked them if they could point me in the direction of one of their clients who may be able to sell me a small sample, but they wouldn’t do that either.
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To be fair though, they weren’t the only company to be so disinterested in my inquiry, I did try 3 or so other suppliers, none of them were interested in helping me unless I wanted to buy a full (read EXPENSIVE) roll.
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In the end, I gave up trying, I purchased a flexible USB powered light ($3) and re-purposed it for the flexible conduit. The problem there was it was super-tight so I was unable to draw new cables through & the rubber inside made it difficult to connect to the existing cables. But it proved the concept.
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I wish I had been able to get some proper samples to work out which one would suit my purposes better to get the prototype done, but not to be.
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It must be nice for these companies to have such a great business going on that they can ignore people trying to find a purpose for their products; I certainly don’t have that going on.
