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Offline drcheapTopic starter

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Jumper wire organization ideas...?
« on: August 17, 2015, 05:27:18 am »
You know those 100s (1000s?) of little jumper wires you have that are super handy when working up a prototype on a breadboard...?


(A small sampling of mine that recently got scattered about by a small furry creature)

I have mostly male/male for breadboarding, but also some male/female & female/female that are handy for connecting to/between header pins of various boards.  There are also various lengths, and less importantly (for storage purposes) different colors.  I have yet to find a good way to store these things so that they are easily/quickly accessible, ideally with separation between gender pairs as well as lengths.

I'm interested in seeing what sort of system some of you guys have come up with to store them.  I know some people just throw them in a box/bin and create colorful spaghetti, but I'm trying to find something with a lower random seek time.  The last thing I want to do in the middle of wiring up a circuit is spend 3 minutes hunting down a suitable jumper wire for the connection-of-the-moment.
 

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Re: Jumper wire organization ideas...?
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2015, 05:53:17 am »
Those plastic storage bins (24 compartments typically) are very handy. They usually have long horizontal compartments molded into the box itself and vertical compartments are created by removable plastic dividers.

Possible compartment sizes are very well matched  to the length of the typical jumper wires.
« Last Edit: August 17, 2015, 05:57:27 am by ataradov »
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Offline drcheapTopic starter

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Re: Jumper wire organization ideas...?
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2015, 06:19:34 am »
Yeah, I tried that, it was not exactly an efficient use of the container (and thus many containers would be needed).  Maybe I need to find better size/shaped containers :-\

 

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Re: Jumper wire organization ideas...?
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2015, 06:29:44 am »
Yeah, you need to find a bigger box. Here is one of mine. As you can see, those 2x1 compartments fit the shorter wires perfectly.
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