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WhereEaglesDare:
couldnt you still use a common ground for all your buttons, you could do 6 or 7 buttons on one cable of cat5

gryhnd:

--- Quote from: WhereEaglesDare on April 13, 2010, 08:47:51 pm ---couldnt you still use a common ground for all your buttons, you could do 6 or 7 buttons on one cable of cat5

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Ya, I could have (probably) in retrospect, but at the time my experience was lower and I wasn't confident in how well putting 11 grounds into one thin Cat5e strand would work (7 button switches+ 4 for the joy) .  So I tied them all together into one larger gauge wire at the encoder end so I wouldn't have to worry about it.

JustMichael:
It really doesn't matter if you use solid or stranded wire if the wire is going to be sitting still.  If the wire is going to be moving around a lot then I would recommend stranded because it is less likely to break.  I used cat5 for wiring my control panel because I had extra lying around.

phildo77:

--- Quote from: JustMichael on April 13, 2010, 11:29:21 pm ---It really doesn't matter if you use solid or stranded wire if the wire is going to be sitting still.  If the wire is going to be moving around a lot then I would recommend stranded because it is less likely to break.  I used cat5 for wiring my control panel because I had extra lying around.

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+1

I'm building a rotating panel so I chose stranded.  For me, breakage risk is the main issue when looking at solid or stranded.

TEKNYNE:
+2 for stranded.
I work with low voltage and communications systems every day go for stranded cat 5 it will save you headaches in the future. With the right bends a couple to dozen of times solid cat 5 can fail. Stranded can flex hundreds of times before failing.

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