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  • Date Created: 5 Feb 2020 12:11 AM Date Created
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Poll: What Do Electronic Engineers Want to Know about Cabling, Wiring & Connectors

I know its hard to gain the attention of electronic engineers who get goose bumps over hearing about the fastest processor ever on the Raspberry Pi4 or the latest high-performance dual core superscalar processor running at 1.6 Ghz, and then abruptly change the conversation to talk about wiring, cabling and connectors.

 

But all electronics systems need to one degree or another some kind of wiring, cabling (for connecting sub-assemblies or system wide components), and connectors (interconnects and terminations).

 

If I have your attention, I'd like to bring you into the conversation now and ask you (as if we were sitting at a bar I frequent near my apartment in Chicago called The Globe Pub), "what do you want to know about cabling wiring and connectors." (Go ahead, take a sip from your glass of GuinnessRegistered before you answer).

 

To help you ponder your answer, check out my poll below. Or, leave a comment and tell me what what you would like to know about cabling, wiring and connectors, or, even better, share a story about the time that you wished you had known more about wiring, cabling and connectors and didn't and what happened.

 

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  • dougw
    dougw over 5 years ago +6
    Currently, I am interested in learning more about Litz wire properties and transient eddy currents. On a more mundane note I'm interested in how to choose a good crimping tool for JST connectors. (without…
  • luislabmo
    luislabmo over 5 years ago +6
    I think I'm going to the wrong pubs because I have yet to find one person that asks me about my technical interests or really understands what I'm interested on for a start. Luis
  • colporteur
    colporteur over 5 years ago +5
    Your list was so comprehensive I wanted to select more than one vote.
  • beacon_dave
    beacon_dave over 5 years ago in reply to mp2100

    "...I like RJ45, I know how it works, but of course that darn click tab breaks off to often, so I know we can do better..."

     

    Perhaps consider using an industrial RJ45 connector then ?

    Product LinkProduct Link

    I've not had a tab on one of these break on me yet...

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  • mp2100
    mp2100 over 5 years ago

    I said network cable for a very specific reason.  What is going to replace the (ancient) RJ45 cable for Ethernet?  I've seen an industrial supplier is selling a smaller more robust connector for Ethernet.  Is this an industry standard?  I like RJ45, I know how it works, but of course that darn click tab breaks off to often, so I know we can do better.  And these days the RJ45 is too big for our ever smaller SBC, plus wouldn't it be nice to have a 24 port network switch that doesn't fill a 19" rack?

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  • Sean_Miller
    Sean_Miller over 5 years ago

    Randy, my boy Connor is in Chicago today with school.  If you see him in the pub - let me know - he's only 15!

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  • shabaz
    shabaz over 5 years ago in reply to michaelkellett

    Wow that would be interesting to see though! I've never seen self-wound loudspeakers.

    Very interesting that they sell self-bonding wire. I'm wondering what cool inductors could be made with that.

    That website has a cool range : )  I had my eye on the silver wires, for the ultimate audio cables, to sell at crazy prices.. but then conscience gets in the way : (

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  • luislabmo
    luislabmo over 5 years ago

    I think I'm going to the wrong pubs image because I have yet to find one person that asks me about my technical interests or really understands what I'm interested on for a start. image

     

    Luis

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  • luislabmo
    luislabmo over 5 years ago in reply to 14rhb

    +1 on this one.

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  • michaelkellett
    michaelkellett over 5 years ago in reply to shabaz

    Just found wires.co.uk and was wasting time there having been sidetracked by the special offer solderable self bonding copper clad aluminium wire.

     

    The only problem is that I'm not sure what I would do with loudspeaker drive coils once I'd wound them !

     

    Would ultrasonic speakers use Litz wire image

     

    (They also sell double twisted Litz wire for the ultimate combination of high Q and good coupling.)

     

    MK

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  • shabaz
    shabaz over 5 years ago in reply to 14rhb

    I use them for home-made test leads.. The ferrule prevents the screw in the banana plugs from slicing through all the fine wire strands in the cable!

    Since the ferrule metal is so thin, I trim the poking-out portion of it with cutters after screwing it down.

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  • shabaz
    shabaz over 5 years ago in reply to rsc

    I think I've tried that before too, hehe. It's definitely a lot harder to obtain nowadays.

    Aliexpress has Litz wire, and for UK there's this supplier:

    https://www.wires.co.uk/acatalog/litzwire.html

    Amongst other uses perhaps it was most popular for AM/HF radios, because you could use it to make very sharp tuned circuits (really great for simple radio receivers), but that's fallen out of favour, since most radios nowadays won't have such a sharply tuned input, and instead will use either superhet i.e. mixing before the super-sharp filtering occurs (using other methods like ceramic filters), or digital processing, or both.

    It's also still very popular for headphone cables! but for flexibility reasons, not for high frequency reasons.

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  • wolfgangfriedrich
    wolfgangfriedrich over 5 years ago in reply to 14rhb

    Very nice explanation. Thank you.

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