Re: Which Wire?
- From: Jasen Betts <jasen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:26:34 -0000
On 2006-02-26, cs_posting@xxxxxxxxxxx <cs_posting@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
knowledge_web@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I just need
to know the type of wire used in those kits. Is it 22 gauge? And where
do you order yours?
What kit? Or at least what kind of interconnect?
If you are pushing wires into rows of holes in a plastic breadboard,
you probably want solid 23 guage - which doesn't exist. What I mean is
22 guage, especially with thick insulation as radio shack used to carry
is too bukly, and 24 guage tends to come unplugged. Still I used it
quite a bit on large projects with 8-bit busses, and hot-glued the
bundles down when they ran between breadboards of a "nerdkit"
prototype-in-a-briefcase class project. One ideal source if is you can
find old multi-pair telephone cable to take apart, as this has lots of
24 (or sometimes 22) guage solid wires in many, many different color
patterns. I recall wiring my busses in spectral order...
yeah, phone equipment is good like that,
these days off cuts of solid core network cable (cat 5 or 6) is another
source, it tends to start appearing in construction site dumpsters as
the drywall installers are finishing, but the stuff is so cheap it may
be easier to just buy some new.
you only get four colours and four whites with coloued stripes, nowhere near
as interesting as the three-coloour striped, and banded wires sometims used
in exchanges.
Bye.
Jasen
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