[sdiy] question about cables

[benjamin]

funny, yesterday I fount CAT5E utp cable they were throwing away... I 
stripped it and am going to use it for internal wiring.  It's pure 
copper and far superior then multistranded cable in my opinion...
I even tried to bend and turn it lots of times and it didn't want to 
break :p

grtZ

Graham Atkins wrote:
> Well,
>
> On 24 Aug 2009, at 19:52, cheater cheater wrote:
>
>> OK, solid core cable works well if you install it and forget it, but
>> it's not really ever this way with modular synths in my experience.
>>
>> 1) a lot of people like to adjust their modules every now and then.
>> That might need you to move the pcb around and in the course of that
>> you could manipulate the wire
>
> Being "solid core" does not make them totally inflexible, copper will
> bend a fair bit without fracturing. Allowing some rigidity allows you
> to bend looms into place to keep cables apart from themselves and
> your PCB's / modules so not really a problem.
>
>>  the sound will be degraded to the level provided by
>> your patch cords. Another run of the same wire will not degrade it any
>> further, the cable in question has already degraded it already.
>
> I think you are reading too deeply into this issue, "degrading" is not a
> serious problem IMHO.
>
>> 4) there is the question of how often you'll have to replace a
>> stranded (soft) cable vs a rigid (single-core) cable. I am not sure!
>> Any thoughts? Which one will oxidize faster? Which will crumble
>> faster?
>
> The whole idea of plating the bare copper conductors with tin, silver,
> GOLD......or whatever is to reduce the oxidisation problem too a
> neglegible level which it does quite effectively compared to bare
> copper. Have you seen a bare copper PCB oxidise as opposed to a
> plated one ?, it will happen overnight.
>
> I think you are reading too much into these issues, they are not as
> bad as you may think. You should have been a Hi-Fi enthusiast LoL.
>
> Graham
>
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