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CP Wire Options
cyapps:
I was going to use some cat5e ethernet I have (1000ft) to wire my whole cp but it is 24awg solid wire and from what I understand I should use stranded. I had already wired the ground side of things with what I have but I wanted to get the correct wire for the rest. I was looking around and the best I can find price wise is 500ft of 18awg remote wire for $20 shipped (need to confirm it is stranded though). I was wondering if this would do for everything such as the buttons and leds. I am not sure if 18awg would be a little large for the leds or not. I also thought about just ordering some 18AWG CL2 Rated 2-Conductor Loud Speaker Cable - 100ft from monoprice with some other things. It carries two wires so the amount of wire is twice the length of cable I buy, and/or I can order some cat5e patch cable and get some stranded 24awg from that for like $8 for 100ft. Some extra wire isn't to bad as I have a lot of future projects that will need some. Any suggestions or ideas?
I guess I can just go to radio shack and get some hookup wire, it seems at an acceptable price range and I would like to get my wiring done asap :).
Franco B:
I use [this] for my CP wiring.
Beretta:
solid is fine, 24ga wire is pretty thin so it should bend easy.. i dont see any problem using what you got.
pretty much any wire will work for this purpose.
surface tension:
Yes, you're right to go with stranded. 16/0.2 is probably your best bet. The cable that Franco B is offering up would be ideal as it really would get tedious wiring up your panel with the same colour... not to mention make any fault-finding much more difficult!
Franco B:
:)
Plus it makes your wiring runs look much neater if thats whats floats your boat.