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| DillonFoulds:
It all depends on your terminations. If you're soldering, or using screw terminals, you'll be fine. If you're crimping on connectors, then plan on wiring that matches your connectors. On my first panel, I used cat5e as I had an abundance of it at my disposal. I will NEVER use it again. It's twisted, so harder to make look nice, it's thinner, so I had to double or triple it up to get the connectors crimped on (what I thought was) solid, but even still they'd give me a couple loose wires. This time making the panel, I bought a 6$ roll of wire, and everything went MUCH smoother and connections are now MUCH more solid. I went with a bit heavier gauge (18awg), just because it was MUCH cheaper than anything else the store had. It made things more difficult when it came to daisy chaining, but some creative wire twists got me there. Cat5e Versus: 18AWG |
| Dr Zero:
Let me ask another question, do you all find that using different colors for different connections is easier to trouble shoot or using the same color for all makes no difference. |
| DillonFoulds:
Digital Multimeter, Continuity setting. What more would you need? You could use multi-colored wiring, but it's just gonna cost you more in the end, unless you're re-using wire. Just pick up a 6$ roll of wire. It'll be worth it. Promise. |
| gryhnd:
--- Quote from: gryhnd on July 14, 2010, 05:22:14 pm ---I use Cat5e cable (24G) successfully. --- End quote --- |
| JustMichael:
Use whatever wire you have on hand. With smaller gauge wire you may need to fold it over a few times before crimping. Now if the wire is going to be moving a lot, use stranded wire instead of solid wire. |
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