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Lilwolf:

btw, I do this (but with 25pin passthrough serial cables... the ones with all 25 pins going through)

it also has the advantage that I buy a bunch of male - male cables that I use for extra control panels.  Cheap on ebay (3 bucks a cable...) and works well.

but what I would recomment doing is make sure you can crimp the ends on tight (and definately go with crimped ends)... if you can't crimp securily, you will constantly have problems.

matman:

What is the gauge of these wires?  Are they so small they are kind of a pain to work with?  (i'm guessing not since multiple people are chiming in with similar ideas)

SavannahLion:


--- Quote from: matman on April 16, 2009, 01:06:45 pm ---What is the gauge of these wires?  Are they so small they are kind of a pain to work with?

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Yeah, they are a bit of a pain to work with. Not so much that they're difficult in and of themselves (I frequently use that gauge for signal trace jumps) just that the scale of everything else you're working with is so much larger.

For example, Lilwolf recommends crimping and this is one area that most people encounter problems. The connectors work with a larger gauge wire than what these are. So most people either strip back extra then fold the wire back once or twice, then crimp. Others eschew crimping entirely and go with soldering (the reasoning for soldering isn't always related to wire gauge).


--- Quote ---(i'm guessing not since multiple people are chiming in with similar ideas)

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It's likely more to do with the fact that this is are really well known techniques. It's one of the very first ideas I explored when I was fiddling with CP designs. I replied because I kind of felt bad that no one said hi to the OP.

Honzo:

Before i get flamed, i'm bumping this thread because I have a similar question and don't want to start a new thread....

Can someone post any good sites to buy bare wire like this?  I've cut open cables like phone cables and such in the past for these sort of projects, but I think i want to wire the whole thing with 18 or 20 gauge, mostly the same color, but radioshack only seems to carry solid core which is never any good.

koz319:

Here's an old thread on using parallel/centronics style connectors on swappable panels.  (Somewhat off topic, but thought someone may still find it useful. Nice thing about these is no soledring on the connectors themselves.)

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Koz

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