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Prostreetamx:
As an electrician at trade shows, I have access to many cables and such that just get thrown away after the shows. I picked up a damaged HDMI cable with the intent of fixing it but instead cut it open to see what it was made of. There are 16 very flexible 26 or 24 gauge wires inside these cables. I will now be using some of these wires where needed on my module installs. I know they sell wire just for this but these were free and will work great. I looked into using phone wire but it is too stiff and solid. I made my track buss from #12 speaker cable I also got for free allowing me to use my money to buy more receiver modules.

hirailer:

--- Quote from: Prostreetamx on December 22, 2015, 03:24:35 PM ---As an electrician at trade shows, I have access to many cables and such that just get thrown away after the shows. I picked up a damaged HDMI cable with the intent of fixing it but instead cut it open to see what it was made of. There are 16 very flexible 26 or 24 gauge wires inside these cables. I will now be using some of these wires where needed on my module installs. I know they sell wire just for this but these were free and will work great. I looked into using phone wire but it is too stiff and solid. I made my track buss from #12 speaker cable I also got for free allowing me to use my money to buy more receiver modules.

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Thanks for the tip. I have several old HDMI cables kicking around here. I made my track buss from NMD-14 house wire which was left over from a job. Seems to work very well.

Cheers
Mel

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