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What are your Tips for an Organized Workbench? [Ask e14 - Join, Share & Win Competition] September 2025

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Calling all makers, engineers, and tinkerers! If your workbench is a masterpiece of order or even a chaotic haven with hidden gems of organization, we want to hear from YOU!
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  • If you work bench is primarily for electronic builds and repair, my tip would be to start by defining your power requirements. Construct, assemble, install your setup to provide reliable access to all the power types you will need.

    Think about it. You’ll constantly require power. One AC outlet designed to hold two connections but alternating ten connections is a formula for frustration.

    Ensure access to the power is convenient to use. Nothing like continually having to move stuff around to get power only increases frustration. Better yet, let’s drag a few extension cords into the mix.

    The design should include power cables to make connections. Build or buy solid power connection cables. I suggest a three, minimum. People use cables so often that they break. Intermittent cable or repairing the one and only cable while trying to test is a frustration factor times 10.

    Not sure of your power requirement. Sit at a bench and mock up a project or think of repairing something. “I need to plug this into power” typically finds its way into a project. Wouldn’t it be nice if that power were accessible, convenient and reliable?

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    The image is a quick connect cable I use for bread boarding power. The 2.5 inch barrel connector comes from a power supply. It can be plugged into devices (no need for wall warts) or plugged into the extension cable that has north & south 2.5mm pins for use on a bread board. The pin arrangement allows the cable to lay flat coming from one end of the board, when plugged into either the north or south power rails on bread board. The set of pins pointing up become a convenient connection point to power other devices from that rail.

    When connect to bread board I secure the pin end it with some electrical tape to ensure it doesn't escape. I have a few of these cables so they tend to stay with a bread board for future use. Got a 2.5 spacing terminal. The pin end fits nicely into the screw terminal also.

  • in reply to colporteur
    colporteur said:
    to start by defining your power requirements.

    Got that covered Slight smile

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  • in reply to Jan Cumps
    Jan Cumps said:
    Got that covered

    Call that a power strip ? 

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