Litz wire has been mentioned, but has anyone mentioned tinsel wire?
And our neighbour across the Atlantic calls flexes "cords".
Standard (ie. British) Wire Guage seems to have been usurped by cross-sectional area in mm, or even AWG, Are the Chinese to blame for that?
Google "Gold plated TOSLink", if you dare.
If we give you enough cable will you hang yourself, or is that rope? grin.
Its yet another example of the wonderful language we speech. Somebody told me yesterday that Skirt and Shirt were derived from the same word but one was Annglo Saxon and the other Danish.
Brian
It's stranded but not flexible, the strands are too thick for that. Hence it's cable not flex.
NT
constantan.
that's tinsel wire, a different thing to litzendraht wire
kanthal is a resistance wire. Wire wrap wire is simply wire wrap wire.
NT
... made of pasta, used in lasagne :)
Yeahbut, its stranded to make it more flexible :-)
Yep that's the one. But what we have have on a wooden reel the label says glass covered copper, it loks loke white cotten. 22swg.
we used Kynar wire for Wire-wrap.
I have some extra-flexible wire, because it's more flexible than normal flexable wire :-)
more, yes, but it still isn't suitable for applications where it gets regulrly flexed
very useful too
NT
I was not aware that conduit cables (singles) have ever been anything than stranded.
FYI T&E has class 1 and class 2 conductors....
Class 1 is solid and class 2 is stranded. Class 1 is usually up to 2.5mm and class 2 is greater than 4mm. However you can buy T&E with stranded 2.5mm, either as the cpc (eg
6mmT&E) or as a a 2.5 T&E (cpc is solid)
But it's not a flex!
fibreglass for high temps
NT
Indeed, because while it is to some extent flexible, it's not flexible enough for use as a flex. It's just flexible enough to make getting it into its fixed position easier.
NT
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