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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: ecrespol2 on October 29, 2003, 11:23:59 am
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They seem to have pretty good prices on electronic components. Specifically I was looking at the following:
Red Fully Insulated .187 Female Disconnects 100 Pack - $3.59
http://circuitspecialists.com/prod.itml/icOid/7707 (http://circuitspecialists.com/prod.itml/icOid/7707)
25 wire shielded 100 foot roll of round cable - $15.95
http://circuitspecialists.com/prod.itml/icOid/1093 (http://circuitspecialists.com/prod.itml/icOid/1093)
The prices seem good and shipping is reasonable of you order a few things (shipping is based on weight).
Anyway just wondering if anyone has had any expirence with these guys.
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I guess you'd definitely have to order several things to make shipping worthwhile. I put just a pack of disconnects in my shopping cart, and had it estimate shipping. $10.19!!!!!!
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Same thing happened with me started at ~$9 for that one pack of disconnects, but I added a whole bunch of other stuff (that 100' 25 wire cable for example) and I'm ~$10. That's what I meant about ordering a few things.
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Just a note about that wire. There are 25 conductors in a space of little more than 1/4". That has to be some really fine wire in there and it doesn't state whether it is stranded or solid.
It would be a bummer to buy all that and find out that it is solid 30ga :b
RandyT
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Yea for sure, just to echo Randy there.. I DID THAT!
I ordered a roll of wire for some other stuff that i had to do with a keyboard hack and jukebox thing i (tried) to do... and the damn roll came unshielded!!! i fainted, even though im broke.. the 20 bucks didnt kill me, just the time lost, i had to wait a few weeks for more spare time to order some things and have more spare time a few weeks later.... in other words. DONT DO THAT... ::quivers at the thought again::
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Sorry, I probably should have mentioned that I'm not getting the wire for this project, it's to clean up my phone systems wiring (ie lots of connections on a punch-down block). Anyway the wire is solid and like 26 AWG so it wouldn't be ideal anyway for my cab anyway. Although I was considering wiring my cp via punch-down blocks (I'm an old telco guy).