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How do you dress your cables?

I'm wondering if anyone has found any particular way to handle excess power cable length. Do you find coiling them is any better than "S"ing them? Or just let them lie in a heap for that matter? If coiling or "S"ing, do you use twist ties or anything to hold them together?
I'm concerned about creating magnetic fields or RF interference by their layout.
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donjr
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You should never coil a power cord. Not when in use anyway.
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geoffkait
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I suspend my power cords from plastic hooks that are attached to the wall with damage free adhesive strips. A rubber band is used to suspend the power cord from the hook. This method isolates the power cord from vibration structural vibration and from other cables.
unsound
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mt10425
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Always in pink.
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jedinite24
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If the power cord I'm using is flexible enough of "S"ing or putting them in a figure 8 I will do so. If I knew I wouldn't be messing with the power cord again I would use zip ties. If I knew I was going to make changes I would tie them up with twine or use sturdier twist ties.

If the cable isn't flexible to put in a figure 8 or "S"ing I would just try to route them so they wouldn't be near interconnects. Since some of the power cables I have were also heavy I was forced to elevate them so that they would not sag from the IEC inputs of the gear I was using them with.

As for dressing them up you can buy all sorts of heat shrink and cable sleeving to make your cables look as pretty as you like.
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