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krick:

The hard part is finding a place that will sell you wire by the foot that has a LOT of colors.

Plus if you're looking for 22 or 20 stranded, it becomes a little harder.  Most places I've found have 24 in a lot of colors but nothing thicker.

A parallel cable has really thin wires.   CAT-5 is too thin as well.



patrickl:

Well I didn't have any trouble finding it and it is 36 stranded, multicolored, 22 AWG at 4 euro a meter. In the USA it's probably even easier to find something like that than it is in europe. Personally I'd rather have less colors, but I'm using it for "normal" cables as well and then you really need every strand to have a unique color.

Apart from that I bought the wiring kit from Ultimarc. That was actually pretty expensive (at least I though it was a lot of money at $19) but then at least I would be sure I had the right disconnects and shrink thingy  :P

Nuttman:

Here are a couple of places to get wire cheaply, in 25' and 100' spools:

Vetcosurplus.com
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www.vetcosurplus.com

Check out the wire here:
http://shop.vetcosurplus.com/catalog/default.php?cPath=114_170_171

Multiple colors, just click on the gauge and length for more info.



Mouser Electronics
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 www.mouser.com

Sells in 100' spools (in addition to the 1000' spools).
http://www.mouser.com/catalog/617/571.pdf
http://www.mouser.com/catalog/617/572.pdf


These sites also offer connectors, so you could get all your wiring supplies with one order.


patrickl:

Don't you get 25' or 100' of one color then? I thought the object of the thread was to get multicolored wire cheap.

krick:


--- Quote from: Nuttman on February 23, 2004, 02:48:09 pm ---Here are a couple of places to get wire cheaply, in 25' and 100' spools:

Vetcosurplus.com
----------------------
www.vetcosurplus.com

Check out the wire here:
http://shop.vetcosurplus.com/catalog/default.php?cPath=114_170_171

Multiple colors, just click on the gauge and length for more info.



Mouser Electronics
-----------------------
 www.mouser.com

Sells in 100' spools (in addition to the 1000' spools).
http://www.mouser.com/catalog/617/571.pdf
http://www.mouser.com/catalog/617/572.pdf


These sites also offer connectors, so you could get all your wiring supplies with one order.


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vetcosurplus only has 10 colors
mouser only has 13 colors


To wire each player with a color coded bundle, you'd need about 15 colors...

Ground
Coin
Start
Up      
Down    
Left    
Right  
Button 1
Button 2
Button 3
Button 4
Button 5
Button 6
Button 7
Button 8

With 29 colors, I could wire each player with completely different colors as long as I use black for ground on both.



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