====== wires ======

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| transformations | [[:drawing|Drawing]], [[:coating|Coating]], [[:wire_stripping|Wire stripping]], [[:crimping|Crimping]], [[:cutting|Cutting]], [[:heat_shrinking|Heat shrinking]], [[:twisting|Twisting]] |
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| parts | [[:ferrules|Ferrules]], [[:electrical_connectors|Electrical connectors]] |
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[[:category:parts|Category:Parts]]

[[:category:electric_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.

**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|crimped]] with [[:ferrules|ferrules]] for use in [[:electrical_connectors|electrical connectors]].  Twisted wire ends can also be used directly with [[:heat_shrink_solder_connectors|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]]

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