Wire Supplier

[RIPSTER]

Im looking for a website where I can buy 26 Gauge wire, the type that standard computer cables are made of, I cant seem to find anywhere thats straight forward enough to buy online, my local electrical store maplin has some weird way of measuring their wire and I just cant find 26 AWG, the staff arnt that much help as they dont even know what units wire is measured in. I live in UK so a UK website would be preferable or US site that ships Globaly.

thnx

[RIPSTER]

neone?

[ThePCGuy]

26 gauge, what kind of computer cable are you thinking about? Standard cat-5 network cable is typically 24 gauge (just slightly larger) and can be found very cheap. Would that work for you?

- Jim

[RIPSTER]

sorry I didnt specify more, im looking for 26 gauge for connecting led's and such components, molex wire is usualy around 26 gauge

[four4875]

i think molex wires should be at least 18. ide cable wire should be more around 26.

http://www.allelectronics.com/matrix/Hook_Up_100.html
rolls of individual wires.

http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/category/825550/Ribbon_Cable.html
and in ribbons

[ThePCGuy]

That's what I was thinking four. Does the UK have a different standard of measurement for wire? 26 gauge is awfully tiny. The only thing I can think of is that the UK uses 240V outlets, right? I'd be curious if the powersuppies in the computers were any different also. I wouldn't imagine they'd be different, but I could be mistaken.

- Jim

[RIPSTER]

well I had a bunch of left over molex cables from an old soldering job and on nearly all of them it was printed 26 AWG, seeing as AWG stands for "American wire gauge" I dont think it would be different from sizes over there.

thnx

[speed bump]

Hmm I would suggest going to you local electronics store and picking up a roll of wire that doesn't look to big. I think I used 22 AWG for the last LED wiring project I had and it worked just fine.

Standard PSU wiring is 18 AWG and is pretty thick to try to wire LEDs with.

[kayson]

You don't have to use 26 gauge wire. You could just buy a bunch of CAT5 cable and use that. I've always used solid CAT5 wires for connecting LEDs and such and they work fine.