wrote:
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:58:57 -0600, Louis Ohland
wrote:

Does anyone know where I can buy RJ12 telephone cables with solid
wire?

I soldered the scarce chinese scale cables to the scale
electronics. Unfortunately, I did not add an external clamp for the
cable next to the electronics, and my display unit is displaying
garbage.

From past experience, it's too darned expensive to buy the chinese
DRO cables by themselves. Worse, the conductors are the next to
impossible to solder stranded wire.

http://www.yadro.de/digital-scale/mo...odding.html#a2

My quick solder job was to simply unfold the flattened conductors
from the small (RJ11?) end, and solder them to the PCB traces. This
probably would have been good enough, except there's no support for
the connector block... Enough flexing, and things get odd.
Use cat 5 cable - (RJ45) and you just have an extra pair.
By RJ12 you mean a 6p6c plug?

Looking at your picture, you only need a 4 conductor cable.
Radio Shack 278-872 is solid conductor 24 guage.
278-870 is also 4 conductor phone cable - not sure if it is solid or
stranded, or what guage.

Their website says solid under the tech specs . 870-0367 is 4 conductor
stranded - on a 100 foot roll . If you want some and dont want to buy a 100
foot roll , ping me offline . It was the smallest package I could find when
building my DRO and I got lots left .

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