cable and wire poll

[Jim Patchell]

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Curious as to what gauge of wire you builders out there are using and/or prefer for your pcb to jack/pots connections.  Also for your power supply to pcb as well.
Thanks
Nick P

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	I Prefer to use 16 guage wire for power supply connections.  22 guage wire would be my preference for a lot of point to point stuff, but, if you start getting any significant number of wires, the bundles can get quite large.  Right now I am using #26 wire.  Generally for Jacks, I will make a twisted pair by taking two wires, chucking them in my electric drill, and letting her rip.  Twisted pairs I generally use for low frequency (i.e. control voltages) lines.  For audio frequency connections, I used sheilded twisted pair cable (right now I have a roll that has 2 24 guage wires plus a metal foil wrapping).  One wire goes to the ground terminal, the other to the hot terminal, and the shield gets tied to the ground terminal at the Jack end.  At the other end, the shield is left unterminated (on my next project, the "other" end is going to be a crimp terminal in a connector shell, thought I would give this a whirl and see how it works).

	-Jim