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      <div class="title_topic3" id="xps10_pagetitle">Stowed wire</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">A Routing Electrical design may require an extra wire in the harness. This type of wire does not make a physical connection, but does run from one connector to another. A wire that does not connect at one or both ends is termed a <b class="uiTerm">Stowed Wire</b>. This section describes how to include a stowed wire in a harness design.
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      <div class="title_division">Connector qualification</div>
      <p class="para_division">Any connector used as the termination point of a stowed wire must contain a multiport to which the harness path is to attache. This is a typical set up for an electrical connector. The multiport may have <b class="uiTerm">Terminal Ports</b> or <b class="uiTerm">Virtual Ports</b>, or both, defined for it.
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      <p class="para_division">Assign a <b class="uiTerm">Virtual Port</b> to the multiport using <b class="uiTerm">Qualify Part</b>. The name of the <b class="uiTerm">Virtual Port</b> may be anything as long as it is not the Pin ID of a real connection point. Possible examples are: NO_CONNECT, NC, and NOT_ATTACHED. Do this for all connector components you want to use as <b class="uiTerm">Stowed Wire</b> termination locations (possibly ALL connectors in the part library).
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      <p class="para_division">It is not necessary to define more than one pin for stowed wires. If more than one wire is to terminate near the connector, all may use the same pin designation.</p>
      <div class="title_division">Connection List (.hrn) content</div>
      <p class="para_division">For each <b class="uiTerm">Stowed Wire</b> in the design there must be an entry in the Connection Navigator, just as there must be an entry for all other wires. For a <b class="uiTerm">Stowed Wire</b>, however, the <b class="uiTerm">Pin ID</b> box contains the name of the <b class="uiTerm">Virtual Port</b> as defined for each connector (described in the section above). For example, the <b class="uiTerm">Pin ID</b> box for a stowed wire would contain the string NO_CONNECT.
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      <p class="para_division">Assume the <b class="uiTerm">Connection List Import Format</b> is:
      </p><pre class="indent">Connection List File Format = Minimal
Type = comma_delimited
unique_id, string
from_comp, string
from_conn, string
from_port, string
to_comp, string
to_conn, string
to_port, string
od, real</pre><p class="para_division">Then an entry in the Connection List for a stowed wire not connected at either end could be:</p>
      <p class="para_division"><code>SW1, DEVICE_1, CONN_A, NO_CONNECT, DEVICE_2, CONN_B, NO_CONNECT</code></p>
      <p class="para_division">If the wire connects at one end but not the other, the entry could be:</p>
      <p class="para_division"><code>SW1, DEVICE_1, CONN_A, PIN_1, DEVICE_2, CONN_B, NO_CONNECT</code></p>
      <div class="title_division">Routing the stowed wire</div>
      <p class="para_division">A <b class="uiTerm">Stowed Wire</b> routes the same way other wires route. Using either <b class="uiTerm">Auto Route</b> or <b class="uiTerm">Manual Route</b>, the wire is routed from connector to connector provided a path is defined between the multiports of the two connectors and those connectors have been assigned in the <b class="uiTerm">Component Navigator</b>.
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      <div class="title_division">Information reporting on stowed wires</div>
      <p class="para_division">The system handles stowed wires no differently than connected wires. Their modeled length reports based on the length of the path segments to which it is assigned. The <b class="uiTerm">Cut Length</b> is determined using the default multiplier and offset, or those assigned specifically to the <b class="uiTerm">Stowed Wire</b>.
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      <div class="title_division">Formboard</div>
      <p class="para_division"><b class="uiTerm">Stowed Wires</b> will carry to the formboard model. The designation of the <b class="uiTerm">Virtual Port</b> name, such as NO_CONNECT, informs the harness builder that this wire is not to be connected. Otherwise, you can add a special note to the formboard drawing to alert the builder NOT to connect the stowed wire.
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