On Tuesday 29 October 2019 06:41:23 Roland Jollivet wrote: > On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 at 04:48, Dave Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > > Menards was selling some surprisingly nice low voltage control > > wiring with two conductors two years ago for a good price. I > > bought a hundred feet of it or so to wire up some air valves on a > > machine and I was in a rush. > > It was real stranded copper and I believe it was 18 gauge. > > Two conductors in a jacket. > > Its been on the machine for 2 years now, no issues. > > > > Dave > > Is this something difficult to get in your country? > > I can walk into any electrical store and ask for 2-core cable, 5A. > It's available in round (like 3-core) or 'twin-flex'. (figure 8) > Black or white... > You are lucky, you have electrical stores yet, We used to have them here, but now the nearest one is 20 air miles north in Clarksburg and is keeping wholesalers hours 5 day/week. The lack of serviceable parts in consumer electronics has totally wiped out any business opportunities that used to support those who bought parts and made their own in these parts.
I got this spool of 20 feet of 20 gauge at one of our 3 auto parts stores, for $11 Got it strung thru the cable chains but my legs gave out before I finished up the hookup. Too many times up and down a 3 step lightweight costco ladder for legs this old. I've a couple terminal strips for bus bars in that interface box I need to corral by screwing them to a thin piece of wood and found the 1/2" #4 wood screws I'd pulled out of a drawer were 1/8" too short. Wore out, time to quit so I did. Fixed us some eats, and was up in the night working cramp preventing foam into my legs twice before I got 3 or 4 hours sleep. Stuff is called Theraworx, is a soap foam in a pump bottle with magnesium sulfate as active ingrediant. And it actually works! But I still need to get those bus strips fastened down, along with the switching pcb and a voltage booster so I can run it thru a 5v 5a supply under the bob for its power source. That and replace a half a dozen tie-wraps corraling cable I had to cut to make room for another wire. I have all the wire from the overhead shelf in a braided expandible to about 1.5" tubing that falls off the edge of the overhead shelf, meeting the front end of the cable chain for the y axis at the rf corner of the bed. It joins up with the motors plumbing and the rest of the stuff, so there's plumbing, air lines and all the motor cables etc in those chains. Trying, only moderately successfully, to keep it neat. > Otherwise there's Red/Black twin-flex for DC applications. I have some of that coming from amazon, sometime in the next "3" days ack the email spam they send me 2x daily about it. But this wire will work. Its at least polarity marked, one copper, one tinned. Then, once I get coolant to the nozzle aimed at the tool, I have to make a much smaller nozzle as these $10 models use way too much air at a usable psi. Makes my 2hp compressor run full time at 10 psi. I think I'll see about a 1/4" length of cap tubing as an extension on the center injector thing, and whatever size of brass tubing will fit with a leakage gap for air flow, set into the brass nose cone tip. Today is a new day. Maybe I'll get the pump running. Maybe they'll give me some more giddy-up on Nov 5th, I could sure use it. Take care all. > Roland > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
