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Re: Spining wires? cRIO mounting?

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Originally Posted by Nathan4567a (Post 1120411)

Since you are worrying about the visual appearance of the robot, I would not recommend spinning the wires. Instead, go to your local electronics store and buy wire with an outer casing. It makes everything look nice and neat, and in some stores, you have a choice of colors, so you can chose the wire to match the color of your robot. You will also have a choice of how many wires you want in the bundle, so that will eliminating having to run several strands side by side. We use these wires on our robot and they make it look great, and neat.

An alternative to consider is getting zip cord, which is essentially two wires conjoined side-by-side, generally a red and black one.

Re: Spining wires? cRIO mounting?

Nathan,
The type of wire you are referring is jacketed multicore wire. It is available in shielded or unshielded, individual conductors or paired, and is generally available in small quantities up to 20 conductor. Jacketed cables are legal for use on FRC robots. You may be able to find jacketed paired cables in #12 or #10 at hifi outlets in your area as this is common for speaker interconnect.
In larger quantities (500' or more) higher conductor counts are available. The phone company uses 50 and 100 pair cables. I stock and use 26 pair and 32 pair shielded cables for microphone interconnects and analog or AES trunk wiring. Many road shows use 50 pair cables for mics, stage monitor and console interconnects.