Questions tagged [wire]
A length of conductive material used as a conductor of electricity.
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Confusion in number of turns and strands in flyback transformer
I am designing my own discontinuous mode flyback transformer and am following the book Transfomers and Inductors Design Handbook by Colonel. Wm. T. Mclyman. I have used all the equations of the ...
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VGA cable wire pinout
I stripped this VGA cable. It only has 5 wires. One is just single copper strand.
Is this normal? If so what would be the pinout?
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Is it possible for turn signals to be operated with push to make switches to earth on a bike using relays?if so is there any circuit diagrams to show?
Switches are earthed when pressed. I have tried various ways of attaching the wires, but can’t find a solution.
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Check wire continuity without microcontroller
Basically I need to create 2 devices that are not connected to each other. One should be connected to one end of the wire and the second one to the other end. If it detects that it’s the same wire, it ...
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Is there a connector/board for a DJI Air 2 camera gimbal chord and camera transmission chord? [closed]
Hello, I have a DJI Air 2 camera and gimbal but nothing else atm. I was wondering if there are any connectors, boards, etc. out there that could connect to these that aren't DJI's own product since ...
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12V – DC wire gauge | Does length calculation ‘reset’ at socket/ junction?
Sorry in advance that this is a basic question which is pretty obvious. I’ve just been struggling to find a clear answer and wanted to confirm.
I’ve set up a 12 V leisure battery system in my van to ...
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How to strip 32 AWG wires for small connectors with ~1mm a wire length
I'm crimping a lot of small Molex connectors (i.e. Pico Blade and Pico Lock) and keep running into difficulties with not being precise enough when stripping wires resulting in either an unreliable ...
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Why did the Lucas voltage regulator use rectangular section enameled wire for one of the windings?
In the 1930s and subsequently, Lucas supplied a car voltage regulator of the twin bobbin type.
A detailed description of how it operated can be found here, but in summary, one solenoid operated a cut-...
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How to determine ground and power wires in USB 2.0 with not standard colors? [duplicate]
My USB 2.0 cable has 4 wires: blue, white, yellow and transparent. I want to connect it to a LED strip that has 2 wires: red (+5V) and white (GND). How can I find ground and power wires among those 4 ...
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What are the strongest wire connection points on flexible PCB
Wires have to be soldered onto the bottom pads, however these pads are really fragile and often get loose from the flexible PCB. Now I'm trying to create these PCBS myself but with different ...
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What would be the AWG (American Wire Gauge) standard for my wire 1 x 0.75 rm?
I have been trying to figure out my wire gauge standard in AWG format. I bought a coil (100 meters) of wire and the info written on the package is: 1 x 0.75 rm. I understand the 1 in here represents ...
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How to join two thin wires so that they can withstand physical stress?
I'm trying to join two rather thin wires (headphones cable in this particular case) that will later be worn by a human and therefore subject to quite a bit of physical stress (bending, pulling). ...
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Testing circuit editor issue - please ignore
I said please ignore :-)
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Reason not to use aluminium wires, other than higher resistance
So aluminium is 3.3 times lighter than copper (8.96 vs 2.70 g/cm3). And its resistance is only 55% bigger. So in weight/resistance ratio it is actually better than copper. Also it is cheaper.
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Wires on Arduino Mega 2560 rev3
I wanna buy an Arduino but I don't know which wires you need for it and I need a wire that can transfer 5V. I mean the wires for the pins btw
