[TriEmbed] Best Cable Choice

[jonjwolfe at anibit.com]

At many hardware stores, you can also buy many types of wire by the 
foot. The prices vary a lot depending on what type of wire, but since 
you can buy exactly the quantity you need, I've found it an economical 
option in the past.

On 2015-01-08 10:13, pete at soper.us wrote:
> I read the datasheet again and at 50 ft it's hard to imagine a
> mechanism that would make the circuit sensitive to that cable choice.
> The one "interesting" detail i found is they pretty much say you can't
> measure the high end of the temp range (over 100C) with parasitic
> power.
> 
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> From: "Grawburg" <grawburg at myglnc.com>
> To: "Triangle Embedded Devices" <TriEmbed at triembed.org>
> Subject: [TriEmbed] Best Cable Choice
> Date: Thu, Jan 8, 2015 9:20 AM
> 
> I'm making an extension for the waterproof temperature probe that
> AdaFruit sells (3 conductor stranded) and have two choices:
> 1. Cat5e cable which is about 35 cents/foot
> 2. 24 AWG cable for R/C servo cable applications that's 75 cents/foot
> 
> Other than having 5 extra wires the Cat5e is certainly the best value.
> Any reason why I should try to find something else?
> I have two applications and will probably end up needing 50 feet.
> 
> Thanks,
> Brian Grawburg
> 
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