[sdiy] question about cables

[mailing gigaspeeds]

haha lovely !

Andre Majorel wrote:
> 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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