[sdiy] question about cables

[Andre Majorel]

On 2009-08-24 19:52 +0100, cheater cheater wrote:

> 3) you're using soft cable outside. why would you use rigid cable
> inside?

- You like the way it stays in place,
- it's less expensive,
- you have a few hundred metres of it in 69 different colours,
  salvaged from telco multipair cable,
- you have about a mile of it in 8 different colours, salvaged
  from ethernet cable,
- it's 19:01 on a Saturday and it's all you have,
- you can't or won't use posts/glue/headers/tie wraps (when
  soldered straight into a PCB, solid wire is probably actually
  more robust than stranded wire (anything would be)),
- it has some other advantage over the stranded wire you have and
  you don't mind the drawbacks,
- your SO thinks it looks cute,
- the dog ate all the stranded wire,
- it's what Keith Subotnik used on _Pump up the volume_.

> 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?

Stranded cable has a higher surface/volume ratio.

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André Majorel <URL:http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/>