PANEL WIRING

[DJQUIRK]

On the sound lab there are many places where 2 or 3 leads all meet at the same contact on a switch or pot. In an effort keep things clean and organized can I connect all the lead together and then run a single wire from the the point where they meet to the connection on the pot or switch or is it essential that they all meet ON the component's contact? Thanks

[fonik]

[DJQUIRK]

I'm very new to electronics, could you please explain the "star structure". The reason for wiring the way I explained is that the contacts on the particular pots and switches I have are very small and by the time I solder 3 wires to one of them it would by a large messy lump. I would rather bring all the wires together first, wrap them in heat shrink tubing with a single, clean lead running to the pot contact. It seems to me that it would work fine as the pot's contact is essentially a wire leading to the junction of other wires. But I just wanted to be sure, I thought mabye the current could pass from wire to wire w/o having to go to the pot as the pot is not acually in the junction of wires.(sorry if this is a little unclear, I'm at work and don't have time to create a picture to show my point )

[fonik]

as long as everything is connected in a way, it should work fine (if A, B and C have to be connected the order makes no difference - ABC, BAC...), so go on as you suggested. maybe you will have more crosstalk if you bring the wires together in a heatshrink, but who cares? SL is lofi anyway...
the "star"-wiring rule applies to the ground only (see picture).

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