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Element14 do not sell red wire in 1 metre lengths (seriously)

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299792458:
I was looking to buy some red and black 1mm2 hook up wire in 1 metre lengths, but element14 sold every colour except red and black, for which I must get a 100m roll.  See https://au.element14.com/w/c/cable-wire-cable-assemblies/hook-up-wire/prl/results?conductor-area-csa=1mm-&sort=P_PRICE

Tried 1.5mm2 and 0.75mm2, no red except in 100m rolls.  So I did a search for red hook up wire: https://au.element14.com/w/c/cable-wire-cable-assemblies/hook-up-wire/prl/results?jacket-colour=red&sort=P_PRICE

All you can buy is 0.25mm2, 26AWG awaiting delivery, some low strand count 18AWG until stock exhausted, and 6mm2 and over, that is it!  The few other results are all no longer stocked.  Try a different colour like blue and look at all the results: https://au.element14.com/w/c/cable-wire-cable-assemblies/hook-up-wire?jacket-colour=blue&sort=P_PRICE

All I can conclude is that element14 is intentionally restricting sale of the most popular colours in order to force people to buy 100m rolls.

Ian.M:
Cut wire is *ALWAYS* labour intensive and wasteful of stock, as staff cutting wire need to coil it for dispatch without the benefit of a reel, and its difficult to keep track reliably of which reel has enough left on it to fulfil the current orders and to sort orders to minimise wastage.

The true cost of 10m of wire in labour to cut and pack it, warehouse space for the wire cutting station, time to keep it stocked, admin overheads etc. may far exceed the cost of the wire itself.  Compare with picking and bagging N items from a bin.

Therefore its possible they may be planning to get out of the cut wire business for smaller wire diameters and you've just discovered that their stocks of the most popular colours have run out. 

Kjelt:
Indeed I just bought the 100m of 0,75 and 0,5 mm2 and even 250m of the 0,25mm2 wire in many colours.
Price of 1m was equal to 10m when buying the rol of 100m.

Berni:
Just buy a whole roll, you will find that roll useful for many other things.

But if you want lots of multicolored wire on small reels then the Chinese have you covered. Something along the lines of this:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/30-28-26-24-22-20-18awg-5-colors-Flexible-Silicone-Wire-Tinned-Copper-line/162809854656

Me and some of my coworkers ordered this particular one and it is indeed really nice wire. Soft flexible silicone heat resistant insulation and fine strands of pre-tinned copper inside. You have to watch out a bit when buying wire from them as they do sometimes like to sell you crappy stuff (bad insulation, aluminum conductors etc), so if it looks too cheap to be true, it probably is.

Kjelt:

--- Quote from: Berni on June 13, 2019, 07:59:01 am ---You have to watch out a bit when buying wire from them as they do sometimes like to sell you crappy stuff (bad insulation, aluminum conductors etc), so if it looks too cheap to be true, it probably is.

--- End quote ---
Yes I have in the past received wire that was magnetic susceptible, so probably ordinary iron  |O

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