Any good "rainbow" ribbon cable sources?

[pappasmurfsharem]

I'm looking for some decent ribbon cable.

Minimum 24AWG.

I found this but its 28awg  and that might be a little difficult to work with.

http://www.amazon.com/Ribbon-Cable-10-wire-15ft/dp/B007R9SQQM

Something reasonably easy to separated.

[mth5044]

Ebay! Although it's been so long since I got any I couldn't tell you who the supplier was.

[pappasmurfsharem]

Ebay! Although it's been so long since I got any I couldn't tell you who the supplier was.

I saw a bunch on there but couldn't tell what gauge the wire was

[slacker]

I've used ribbon cable salvaged from old PCs, that's 28 gauge. It's easy to separate, you can just pull it apart, it's probably a bit thin though if you want to split it into individual wires. I only use it with headers and sockets to join boards.

[pappasmurfsharem]

I've used ribbon cable salvaged from old PCs, that's 28 gauge. It's easy to separate, you can just pull it apart, it's probably a bit thin though if you want to split it into individual wires. I only use it with headers and sockets to join boards.

Yeah old IDE cable. I was king of hoping to use the multicolored ribbon for easy of troubleshooting issues. I know one of the bigger name guys here did boards with kind of ribbon cable, I can't remember who though.

[PRR]

http://www.surplussales.com/Wire-Cable/ribbon.html

[pappasmurfsharem]

http://www.surplussales.com/Wire-Cable/ribbon.html

It looks like 28 AWG is about as good as it gets. I suppose I can always try and see if it's worthwhile

[armdnrdy]

26AWG is a standard size that is fairly common in ribbon/flat cable.

I purchased 5 meters of 10 conductor from an ebay seller about 2 years ago.

I checked ebay...and it seems as if the price has increased...most likely due the never ending rise of the price of copper.

[davent]

If you're going to be placing an order with Small Bear, he has it.

http://www.smallbearelec.com/servlet/Detail?no=1045

[armdnrdy]

If you're going to be placing an order with Small Bear, he has it.

http://www.smallbearelec.com/servlet/Detail?no=1045

Maybe Steve can pop in and clarify a few small details like gauge.....and $1.65 for what length.

[GGBB]

Small Bear's is priced per foot and 26 AWG.

A1 Parts in Toronto (local for me) have 22 AWG 4 conductor stranded @50cents/ft: http://a1parts.ca/wirescables/wire%20and%20cable.htm - scroll down about 1/3 of the way to "4 Wires for RGB Led`s".  Not tried it myself.

[davent]

Forgot about Apex Jr, i've used them for other wire, good to deal with.



20 conductor, 24awg 99¢/ft

http://www.apexjr.com/wire.html  About half way down the page.

dave

[pappasmurfsharem]

Forgot about Apex Jr, i've used them for other wire, good to deal with.

20 conductor, 24awg 99¢/ft

http://www.apexjr.com/wire.html  About half way down the page.

dave

Hmm so 20 feet for $1.
Not bad. looks like its stranded though

this is what I have at the moment

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2062656&znt_campaign=Category_CMS&znt_source=CAT&znt_medium=RSCOM&znt_content=CT2032227



24AWG Solid core, but only 4 connectors, while it works it would be nice to have more.

[jk-fm]

Newark has Amphenol Spectra-Strip in 24AWG, so does Mouser.
http://www.newark.com/amphenol-spectra-strip/135-2406-314/ribbon-cable-14cond-300v-per-m/dp/23M8232

[pappasmurfsharem]

Newark has Amphenol Spectra-Strip in 24AWG, so does Mouser.
http://www.newark.com/amphenol-spectra-strip/135-2406-314/ribbon-cable-14cond-300v-per-m/dp/23M8232

Yeah I think thats my best best, It seems like it was a pipedream to open for multicolored SOLID core apart from the 4 conductor wire I already have

[tubegeek]

Apexjr has a lot of very good types of wire - I use their silver/copper/teflon for my tube amps.

One time a few tears ago I called Steve and asked him to put together the ugliest color variety selection he could come up with and he did not disappoint. Grey w/orange tracer, white with some other ghastly combination of stripes, he found some really horrible looking colors for me.

I don't know what I was thinking, but the result has been, he's never forgotten me! Meanwhile I haven't used it all up yet and I'm still looking at this weird stuff.