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Re: favorite kind of wire for bike lights?
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Richard Guy Briggs
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Sep 23, 2009 19:21 PDT
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On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 06:48:06PM -0700, bbarry wrote:
| | 22 gauge speaker wire. Nothing thicker is needed. If you look at the
wiring on BuckPucks, even the 1000mA versions use this thickness or thinner.
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I've used 22 AWG, but I've found it to be less robust and tore or broke
more easily, either through fatigue or getting caught on stuff.
| | thicker wire is harder to route through short and tight spaces, more mass =
more mass vibrating = greater chance of breakage at soldered
connections.You can make wire any color you want by putting shrink
tube over it. For a
bike light, yellow is better for visibility. If the connector separates at
night, you want something you can see and reconnect easily.
For connectors that won't come undone, use 9V snap connectors.
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I like the clear stuff since it blends in to your frame colour like a
chameleon. :)
| | hth,
Barry
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Richard Guy Briggs <rg-@tricolour.net>wrote:
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On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 05:10:35PM -0700, Steve Kauffman wrote:
| | Does anyone have a favorite type of wire to use for their
battery-to-lighthead wiring? Something better than speaker wire from the
hardware store?
I'm looking for something black, flexible, strong, clean-looking, and
appropriate for 1 amp of current.
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