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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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Soldering cheesy 9 V battery wires to wires I can plug into my breadboard
I have a wire that fits atop my 9 V battery and it should easily feed into a breadboard but it does not as the wire is stranded.
I tried last week to solder these wire strands to breadboard jumper ...
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Difference between jumper wires and jumper leads
I'd like to know what is the difference between a jumper wire and a jumper lead; sometime I found that they are synonims, other times I found that a jumper wire is the following:
other times I found ...
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Wiring colors for 'intermediate' connections [closed]
It seems to that red is the color usually used to connect to the positive terminal and black is usually used to connect to the negative terminal. However, I have seen numerous other colors as '...
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The art of using breadboard
I am making a circuit for converting analog to digital signals using an ADC0808. This IC has 28 pins, and my circuit also includes a 555 timer and some LEDs to display the output. The high number of ...
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How to secure flimsy wires from RGB LED strip in Arduino Uno breadboard?
I just purchased an RGB LED strip to make my first 'non arduino starter kit project'.
It has red, green and blue wires coming from the end of it, which I am trying to put in the breadboard sockets ...
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Jumper wire for thin connector pin / holes
I have a board with a Samtec SFM-115-L2-S-D-LC connector. This connector has 30 (15*2) pin holes, with a 0.050" / 1.27mm pitch, and accepts pins that are smaller than those used in breadboard / ...
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Using thin wire with a breadboard [duplicate]
I want to insert a wire into my breadboard for prototyping, however the wire is thin so it folds and frays when I try to push it into an open slot.
Is there a particular type of pin I need to use in ...
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Load Cell Data Problem - INA125P + Arduino Uno
I am currently reading data from my 30kg load cell with my Arduino UNO board and passing this data to my PC. I am using INA125P to amplify the voltage of my load cell and it is established on a bread ...
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18AWGX2C wire to standard breadboard
I am trying to supply 5V 3amps to my breadboard. I have an 18AWGX2C wire but it is too thick to simply connect into the breadboard inputs. Is there any way for me to connect these cables (PWR and GND) ...
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STM8L discovery board, wires for the breadboard
I don't know if it is the right place to ask, but still
I have a STM8L discovery dev board - http://www.st.com/web/catalog/tools/FM116/SC959/SS1673/PF250636
which has very small square male-type ...
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Wire broke off and stuck in a header
I'm working with an Arduino, and one of the stripped portions of the wire broke off at some point and managed to get pretty wedged into the 5V pin slot. Obviously, this wouldn't matter as much for a ...
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What gauge of single strand wire works well with breadboards?
I bought some single strand wires hoping to prototype on the breadboards. Unfortunately it was too small to properly fit into the breadboard holes.
So my question is which gauge fits well on those ...
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How to modify stranded wire for use in protoboards?
I decided to start working with hobby electronics, but I'm having a problem finding a local source of solid wires. As far as I know solid wires are often recommended for use with protoboards because ...
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Cheap solid equipment wire for breadboard from online shop? [closed]
I need breadboard wire for fast prototyping. It can apparently be 22AWG or 24AWG, acccording to this reply about stranded VS solid wire. Because it is for prototyping, I am not looking for expensive ...
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