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Excavatoree:
It's been almost 32 years, exactly since I've purchased breadboard jumper wires.  (the type with two 90 degree bends)

On my old sets, the wires are color coded.  The tiny, uninsulated ones weren't, of course, but the red wires jumped over two breadboard sockets/spaces, the orange jumped over three,  and so forth according to the resistor colors.  I notice a lot of sets being sold don't have this color code anymore.  Am I the only one who ever used it?  Does anyone still buy these, or do most use just use whatever scraps of wire one has, or use the kits without coding?

ledtester:
I've had a couple of those multi-colored breadboard wire kits, but inevitably you start to lose them. Also, I found that I rarely used the longer wires and often ran out of the shorter jumpers -- like the 1 to 4 length ones.

About 10 years ago I had some jumpers that had machine pins on the ends and they were really nice but also expensive. Today you really can't beat the price of the "Dupont" style jumper wires or the ones that come with the molded plastic ends. You don't get the variety of lengths but often it doesn't matter if your jumpers form big loops in the air. When it does it's back to making your cut-to-length jumpers.


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I like to use 22ga solid core wire when I have to cut my own jumpers, although 24ga also works.

Video on how to measure a wire for a custom breadboard jumper length:

Chip Tips #6: Beautiful Breadboards -- Robery Baruch
https://youtu.be/4F3NueYBQUg

Video description has a concise summary of the calculation.

www.MKRD.info:
I will give you a hint: less features: cheaper and easier to produce: higher sales profit.

Excavatoree:
I know that; I was just wondering if I was the only one who ever appreciated and/or used the feature in the first place.   If one doesn't care, then one buys the cheaper version, naturally.

I'll be honest, I almost ordered one of the cheap set made with whatever wire they had laying around, I was studying the pictures and finally noticed. 

Someone:
Its a general divide in how to mark reusable wires/cables:
Colour by length: you can quickly pull the right item from the box/tangle
Mixed Colours: you can colour code the assembly/installation/system

Which do you spend more time on? Picking out the wire to use or trying to figure out where the wires run/connect?

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