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Default Wires and cables

On Friday, 6 September 2019 10:55:57 UTC+1, wrote:
On Thursday, 5 September 2019 12:58:24 UTC+1, whisky-dave wrote:
On Thursday, 5 September 2019 11:53:08 UTC+1, Max Demian wrote:
On 05/09/2019 11:20, whisky-dave wrote:


Or cotton.


constantine perhaps, which was used as resistance wire for making low value resistors usually less than 1 ohm.


constantan.


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.



Or litz.


for brahms as litz peole aka drunk, I think this is used in headphone cables.


that's tinsel wire, a different thing to litzendraht wire

we have another sort which is karna(SP) wire it was used in older computer mainly mainframe for wire wrap connections.


kanthal is a resistance wire.
Wire wrap wire is simply wire wrap wire.


we used Kynar wire for Wire-wrap.



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