Cutting Perfect Jumper Wires
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- Neatness is everything when prototyping a circuit. This video will show you how to cut the right length jumpers, every time.
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50 years of breadboard work. Thought I’d seen it all. TH-cam is simply marvelous.
Thank you.
What are the best breadboards?
From your experiences. I've been looking on Ebay for old ones that have survived.
I like how you described the problem, then demonstrated an easy to follow solution.
I also use the insulation which was cut off at the beginning and the waste when you trim through hole resistors to make small jumpers
I never understood buying precut wires myself. Good technique!
I like a combination. I only buy high quality solid precut jumper wires and use them when it is convenient but i also have 22 and 24 AWG solid wire that I use to cut my own custom ones. I also use the larger loose jumpers when i need something easy to swap between 2 points
@@Wes8761 Definitely agree. I think a combo is good, because for the connections you just want to "tie off" it makes sense to use 22 AWG wires, then for the more mobile/variable connections the prebought jumpers are great. Using either entirely can get tiring. Using all 22 AWG can get annoying cutting so many wires, but using all jumpers is hard to follow and horrific to troubleshoot.
Simple. It's effortless.
Thank you, this short video was the exact info I was looking for... Solid, 24 Gauge
For large quantities, an idea for a better method would be:
1. Define standard wire lengths for each jumper size (distance between breadboard holes + 2x the length of the stripped ends). For that, you could grab some precut wires from a kit or carefully make yours to serve as a model. Also, it's worth knowing breadboard spacing is 0.1 inches (2.54 mm) hole-to-hole.
2. Cut lots of pieces of wire with the defined standard lengths (ideally with a spacer of some kind so you don't have to measure every time).
3. Easily strip all the ends with a Self-Adjusting Wire Stripper by adjusting its "stripping length regulator" to the one you defined earlier as ideal.
i love this kind of tips. really good video and thnxs 4 the info....
This is a good tip. I am suuuuuuuuper sloppy with things like jumpers.
This is going to make me look like a genius in my DC CLASS!
That was a good tip or snip!
If you're going to say measurements of any kinda, use the SI base unit with a suitable prefix.. In that case, mm. Most of the world doesn't use imperial, so say the imperial unit, then the metric unit. It'll attract a wider variety of viewers because you're not restricting yourself to just one measurement type.
Jordan O'C By that logic, all of his videos should also be in Mandarin.
***** No, that's not my logic at all.. There are 2 countries that use imperial, the rest of the world uses metric. The rest of the world doesn't all speak Mandarin, so there is literally no similarity. Your argument is invalid.
***** Mandarin might be the language with the most native speakers (judging by your comment, don't know whether this is actually true), yet it's not spoken by the majority of people in the world. Metric units ARE used in most of the world.
How about if you're smart enough to be prototyping a circuit you should know already the length you want the probing end of your jumper. Shouldn't matter if its imperial or metric.
Kevin Sanders ..I watched the video because I was intrigued, not because I don't know how to how to cut jumper wires correctly.
Hello! Some recommend AWG22 but others suggest it should be AWG24 like in your example. Those advocating AWG22 say AWG24 can be rather loose in the board slots. The ones who use AWG24 normally say its their own preference without much argumentation. AWG24 is slightly over 0.5 mm while AWG22 is just over 0.6 mm. Smaller diodes can have leads thinner than 0.5 mm. Sometimes the AWG24 advocates say the AWG22 gauge wires will expand the slots and smaller components start to fit loose. It's all a little complicated...
Same
Excellent. Good project for a slow day.
I have a gauge designed and made by BreadBoardManiac. It does a similar job, but has measurements on it to get the exact lengths.
simple but smart !
Useful skill
ALso is it neccessary to need different colors of wire? black and red for neg /pos but is green, white, yellow, orange, blue colors really needed? Im saying this to save money in a sense.
Nice post I have been doing the same for many years. The reason they sell all the wires of the same length of the same color is purely one of packaging efficiency it is way easier to cut all wires from one spool the same length. You probably have also noted that they don'e even use all of the 10 available colors in the assortment.
It is way easier to trouble shoot many parallel data/control lines when each channel has a different color from source to indicator.
this is actually helpful. Thanks
Tidy jumpers! Cool.
great idea
Can you please tell me the tool you used in the video for cutting the wires ?
Probably something very similar to this: www.ebay.com/itm/Yellow-Insulated-Anti-Slip-Grip-20-30-AWG-Electric-Wire-Stripper-Cutter-Crimper/361358686554?epid=1538396161&hash=item5422a7f95a:g:hDIAAOSwj3ldVDCT
It may be sold out when you read this, though, as there were only 2 left in store when i bought one, but if you search for something like "wire cutter / insulation remover" you should find alternatives quite easily.
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Automatic wire strippers make it sooo much quicker and easier, just gotta get a good brand or they'll break after one project lol
Perfect wire lengths every time: just hold the wire and up to where you want it and mark the edges of the two holes with your fingernail, strip there.
Do you have any ideas for laying out 8 jumpers between three ICs each with 8 pins for data on a single side? The jumpers get incredibly cramped and messy
Thanks!
Where can I buy solid coated wire like the one in the video? Everywhere I search just has stranded wire. Thanks.
Sir very nice
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Simple and genius! :D
Great advice
so helpful!
nice
Would i use this same wire type to solder to my PCB once I've gotten my breadboard prototype correctly working?
Edit: microcontroller, not PCB
Anyone?
@@the_grass_trainer A PCB is a printed circuit board, meaning that all of the connections and components you need for your circuit are already on it at the time that it is fabricated. So no, no soldering or wires necessary! What you may be referring to is a thru-hole or "prototyping" board, which is just a generic board with holes in it to which you can solder your components and such. On these boards, YES, it is necessary to solder wires in place to jump between different parts of your circuit.
@@JohnSmith-sp4vq oh hey, thanks a bunch! I'm new to all of this, so i appreciate the clarity. I've got a microcontroller without header pins that I want to wire buttons to. Is this the right wire for that?
@@the_grass_trainer PCBs come in several different flavours: some only have copper traces (connections) on one side, others have traces on both top and bottom, and there are even types that have copper traces embedded in them; i have heard about PCBs with up to 7 layers, and even then the designers occasionally have to use wire jumpers to complete the circuits.
Anyway, you can use thinner wire in many cases, except where they carry a lot of current, such as power supply lines; in the latter case you may have to use thicker wire.
I hope this helps.
@@BertGrink thanks a bunch for the information! Def helps :)
What kind of jumpers are there??
The second one
amazing
was wondeirng what i was doing wrong and realized i didn't have that tool....
that would make it a lot easier wouldn't it
Genius.
Actually, the video kind of lost me after moving the insulation between point A and B. Point C is mentioned in the voice over, but never indicated on the video, and not mentioned in the online Make article that brought me here.
Rick Henderson But I understand the technique.
im using 20 ga, a lot tighter
If you dont want any colous then just use white bell wire it is 24swg tined and solid copper 100 meters is very cheep!!
I tried that and then I realized that breadboards are white. It's not impossible to see, but I'd prefer to have high contrast when making connections. Now I have 100ft of white 22awg solid core wire, and that's not very useful, unless I can find a good black breadboard (that'd actually look really cool, if anyone actually made them).
Precise =))
Ah, I see my problem. I'm using 20 gauge stranded wire.
name of the song in the video? please
A smaller pair of wire strippers (or a nice pair of angle cutters) makes the job much better. It's all in the wrist, and once you've done a few million, it becomes second nature. Something like these: www.amazon.com/Stanley-84-213-Wire-Stripper/dp/B00002X1WG/ref=sr_1_31?ie=UTF8&qid=1428723179&sr=8-31&keywords=wire+strippers
Your lengths aren't exact. It looks like slop with them being too long and curving. I created an entire microprocessor system on a breadboard and cut my wires exact. It's a work of art.
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That's really wasteful. If you honestly don't know how much bare wire you need, then you honestly shouldn't be messing with electricity, let alone electronics.
Okay, smartass.