Questions tagged [wire]
A length of conductive material used as a conductor of electricity.
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Design of very long serial signal systems
In the current case there is a single signal conductor, tens (hundreds?) of meters long, which serially connects door and window sensors for a whole building. The sensors are simplest possible ...
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Single-core-wires: should sharp turns be avoided?
When making connections with single-core wires, should sharp turns like this be avoided, opting for a rounder turn? Or it doesn't matter?
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Substituting lighter gauge wire for a heavy gauge wire
Would two 10 AWG wires replace one 8 AWG? I am setting up a 2-pole 50
amp breaker.
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Can I Wire a Thermocouple Like a PT100 Sensor
I have an IoT multi-channel controller which can accept PT100 sensors (2-wire or 3-wire). I don't have any PT100 sensors, however I do have K-type thermocouple wire. Is there any way to wire in the ...
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Need connector ideas [closed]
I am designing a transducer with two platinum electrodes (black lines in below picture).
These electrodes are going into acrylic discs above it (blue boxes), 20mm Outer Diameter, 15mm Inner Diameter, ...
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Cable harness plan design question about dimension representation
Maybe this isn't realy a 100% electronic question.
I need to send a drawing of a cable harness to a subcontractor.
My problem is that my predecessor represent the dimensions like this:
And I'm pretty ...
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Will crimping ferrules on 2.5mm2 wire make more reliable connection to screw banana plugs?
I have a lot of 4mm banana plugs intended for at most 6mm2 wire that are connected to the wire using a screw connection. I use them with both 6mm2 wire and 2.5mm2 wire. I have found that the screw ...
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Purpose of wires of ESC [closed]
I have a brushless sensored DC ESC. The Manufucturer doesn't have instructions. I probably know the purpose of every wire. The three thick wires are for the motor phases, the three wires together (...
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Why is there a greater lag in Bluetooth headphones compared to wired?
The Usual Answers and Responses:
Encoding, Compression, and Buffering
The typical answer to this on the internet is because Bluetooth headphones require the conversion of one form of data information ...
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Power loss in transformer windings
I am having a confusion while designing the transformer for my smps design. I am in the initial stage of setting my equations for the transformer. I have been following the slides from the ...
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Current rating of a multicore wire
Regrading this 18 AWG wire, under specifications there is this table given:
I want to use this wire to power a module which requires 12VDC and max 5A. In the specs there's nothing about max current.
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Why do these secondary transmission wires coil around the primaries?
All three primary transmission wires in the picture below have smaller wires coiled around them. These smaller wires (secondaries?) connect to a transformer and onto a nearby house. The coils follow ...
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Is brazing and TIG welding wires acceptable connection according to code?
The other day I had my air conditioning repaired, and one thing I saw the technician do is braze the copper pipes together. This got me thinking why don't I see that done in electrical setting.
I ...
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Did my WS2812B strip come with wires way too small for what's needed?
I bought it on Amazon, so it's pretty much a no-brand, no-specs, product, but the product page says 0.24W per LEDs and it has 300 LEDs, 72W (woa!). At 5V that would be 14.4A (double woa!).
It uses the ...
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What type of wire do you recommend for "breadboard jumpers" where the insulation doesn't melt?
Every kind of 24AWG solid core wire I've gotten from Amazon over the years has this same problem. If you want to have lovely neat organized breadboards/perf board circuits, you try to bend the wire to ...
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