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Soldering to perfboard - where to find tinned copper wire?
Moriambar:
--- Quote from: rdl on February 18, 2019, 08:33:28 pm ---Searching ebay (US) for solid copper bus wire, finds exactly what you want in the second hit. Searching ebay.it for the same thing finds only international sellers. So I guess you're right, nobody in Italy is selling the stuff. You can also try Amazon, I found it there too. Just to reiterate what several others have said, you are looking for bus wire, no need to include "tinned". Commonly available solid copper bus wire is almost always tinned.
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Thanks. The problem with being non-native speaker (and amateur) is that basically you have to understand what terms to search for.
Cheers
Refrigerator:
--- Quote from: Moriambar on February 18, 2019, 09:31:49 pm ---
--- Quote from: rdl on February 18, 2019, 08:33:28 pm ---Searching ebay (US) for solid copper bus wire, finds exactly what you want in the second hit. Searching ebay.it for the same thing finds only international sellers. So I guess you're right, nobody in Italy is selling the stuff. You can also try Amazon, I found it there too. Just to reiterate what several others have said, you are looking for bus wire, no need to include "tinned". Commonly available solid copper bus wire is almost always tinned.
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Thanks. The problem with being non-native speaker (and amateur) is that basically you have to understand what terms to search for.
Cheers
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Don't worry, you'll learn all the terms eventually.
I'm not a native English speaker myself and i still remember the days when i didn't know what the word "heatsink" meant.
KL27x:
An alternative is to just buy larger gauge kynar wire. It strips easy, where you want a bare wire. And you get insulated wire, too.
StillTrying:
Slightly OT.
I'm often amazed at how good the written English is from non-native English speakers here, it's often well above average. Sometimes I notice a couple of words swapped around, but I do that myself, :) a lot of the time I would never know that English is not their native language.
Doctorandus_P:
I actually prefer to use solid enameled / transformer wire.
With a temperature controlled iron at 400c to 450C you can burn through the laquer and solder it, while the rest of the wire stays insulated.
This was quite a normal approach for prototypes a long time ago.
Attached a picture with this technique.
The plastic brackets used to be sold at hobby shops.
But these brackets have not been available for a long time. The whole process is quite time consuming and not even well suited for prototypes. It's only usefull for ciruits which are manufactured in series of one, or when there is a hurry, or lack of money or knowledge to order a "proper" PCB.
I've solderd together thens of circuits with wire like this, but never had access to the plastic brackets.
I'm not even sure if the'yre a good idea anyway because the parallel wires increase inter-wire capacittance significantly and that is not a good thing with high-speed logic.
Edit:
Changed some syntax to avoid stamping on Clavuses and kicking hemorrhoids.
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