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Re: Where to purchase wire?
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Originally Posted by rsisk
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Be careful about buying wire on eBay, especially marketed toward car audio. If it seems too inexpensive, it is most likely aluminum wire, which is generally a bad idea for this sort of application. In fact, it looks like the very wire you purchased is indeed aluminum wire that is copper clad, which is not the same thing as copper wire. I wouldn't use that if I were you. It used to be banned in the FIRST Robot rules. I couldn't find it in last year's rules, but I didn't look too close. Long story short, use copper wire.
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