I was just chasing down shorts in my van door wiring (window rolls down but not up?!). You could cut out part of an automotive wiring harness at a junkyard and probably get at least 40 colors :-)
My van is 2010 (just out of warranty, yay) so I’m sure anything new-ish with power doors/windows/mirrors etc, is going to be loaded with wires. -Andy On Jan 25, 2015, at 10:46 AM, Ward Cunningham <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: 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 -- Andrew M.C. Dawes Associate Professor of Physics Pacific University amcdawes.com<http://amcdawes.com>
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