[sdiy] shielded wire recommendation

[Neil Jendon]

on 2/1/01 7:03 AM, DCMagnuson at aol.com at DCMagnuson at aol.com wrote:


> Does anyone have a "favorite" sheilded wire that they use?  I'd prefer
> something available through Mouser or Digikey, as these are the suppliers I
> use most often.  Since this will be internally mounted, I suppose foil shield
> with drain will be fine (smaller diameter is a nice benefit)
> 
Hi,

I really like the "Gotham" brand stuff in Mouser. It's all good quality
stuff with bare copper (not tinned or steel conductors.) The stuff I've used
is flexible (including some 8-conductor cable), but kinda thick. (The yellow
cable is pretty cool looking, though.)

Also, BICC General's cable offerings (Digikey) look promising. Some of them
provide "extra limpness" (who knew that would be a good thing.) The C1228
cable is a little more than 1/8" thick.

http://rocky.digikey.com/USCatalog/V2/505.PDF

> Also, is there any benefit to using this shelided cable on ALL of my
> modifications?  I wasn't sure if there's a need to shield CV inputs / outputs
> as well.

...maybe just twisted pairs for the CV i/o's?

-Good luck
-Neil