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Originally Posted by cpapplefamily
I have searched around for the discussion I'm sure has been touched on many times. Lots of post using phone wire for CAN in the past. My history started last spring so Roborio is my starting point. I would like the team I'm mentoring this winter to start using feed back to operate their robot this year. The off season labs we been preforming has got everyone excited with the possibilities. What I have observed though is many or most of the connection cables we have are pieced together sometimes with two or more solder joints and not always matching colors. I bought a supply of pins and sockets.
Now I'm asking for your experiences would phone and/or Ethernet cable work well for making cables? Solid or stranded? With both types i usually like this strip twice as much wire off and fold it back once to get a solid connection.
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A lot of the phone wire usage has stopped with the new CAN interface. Before 2015, the only option for CAN motor controllers, the Jaguar, required you to use phone cable-esque connectors, hence the use of phone wire. Last season, with the new CAN interface used on the Talon SRX, we just used some yellow and green 22AWG stranded core wire, twisted together by hand. The beauty of CAN is that it's not overly sensitive, as long as you have it terminated properly. If you're looking for a way to connect CAN lines together,
I suggest these. They are tool-less, easy to use, and they hold well.