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[[Category:Parts]]
[[Category:Electric parts]]

====== Introduction ======
A wire is a single usually cylindrical, flexible strand or rod of metal. Wires are used to bear mechanical loads or electricity and telecommunications signals. Wire is commonly formed by drawing the metal through a hole in a die or draw plate. Wire gauges come in various standard sizes, as expressed in terms of a gauge number. The term 'wire' is also used more loosely to refer to a bundle of such strands, as in "multistranded wire", which is more correctly termed a wire rope in mechanics, or a cable in electricity. 

====== Challenges ======
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====== Approaches ======
An electrical cable is an assembly of one or more wires running side by side or bundled, which is used to carry electric current. 

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Stock wires
|-
! Wire !! Amperage !! Lengths !! Link
|-
| male-male, male-female, female-female 0.1 inch / 2.54 mm header terminated ribbon cables ||  ||  || 
|-
| 2,3,4,5,6,7,8 connector pre-terminated single sided jst, jst-xr, molex, xt60 ||  ||  ||
|-
| 2 conductor, 3 conductor, 4 conductor 14 awg "speaker" wire: ferrule/ferrule, ferrule/spade, ferrule/ring ||  || 300mm, 500mm, 1000mm, 1500mm, 2000mm ||
|}


Each can be [[cutting|cut]] in center and [[wire stripping|stripped]], exposed wires [[twisting|twisted]], then [[crimped]] with [[ferrules]] for use in [[electrical connectors]].  Twisted wire ends can also be used directly with [[heat shrink solder connectors]] and other pre-terminated wires to construct adapters or custom wire harnesses.

====== References ======
  *  [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire|Wikipedia: Wire]]
  *  [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_cable|Wikipedia: Electrical cable]]