My mind flashes back to my youth. I remember my father driving my older brother up to Chicago to pick up supplies at Allied Electronics, the premiere industrial sales outfit at the time. I tagged along. What I most remember is how unusually long it took to fill the order because my brother had tacked on one foot of 54-conductor cable. Strange that I remember the exact number of conductors. It was a large part of the conversation on the hour long drive back home.
I notice ebay has some of this very cable available. 500 feet, ten dollars a foot. http://www.ebay.com/itm/500ft-Belden-8773-CABLE-27-Pairs-54-conductor-22AWG-POLYPROPYLENE-AUDIO-computer-/131136514919 On Jan 25, 2015, at 10:07 AM, Mykle Hansen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > My midi foot pedal project has morphed a bit, and now I'm trying > to hook up all the front panel controls of my old dead Marantz amplifier > to a Teensy++, to turn it into a general-purpose MIDI control surface > including a footswitch jack. It may be the largest Teensy enclosure > ever built! > > I've been holding off on the wiring stuff because I thought it'd be nice > to use color-coded wiring for all the connections. But I've been > stumped as to where I can find, say, 40 different wire colorations > in a length of 2 feet or so. I figured I could just chop > off a length of some old telco trunk or parallel data cable, but I > haven't been able to scrounge one yet. > > What do you all do for color-coded wiring in complex builds? I can > usually scavenge up to ten solid colors out of whatever old dead bits of > electronics are lying around, but for more colors than that I need > the multi-color coded stuff (red with white stripe, etc) and I don't > have a good source for that. (I did get the 8 color/patterns that > come in Cat5, plus the solid colors I have … still not quite enough.) > > -m- > _______________________________________________ > dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list > [email protected] > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber _______________________________________________ dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list [email protected] http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber
