Making Dupont Wires

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You can make durable jumper cables for your solderless breadboard by using heat shrink instead of a Dupont housing. The heat shrink acts as a strain relief. Clear heat shrink lets you see the condition of the M/F connector. [A.jpg] [B.jpg] [C.jpg]

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Colour Code your Dupont Cabling When you make up Dupont cabling, match the colour of the wire to the source pin it connects to. Resistor colour code: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 BK, BN, R, O, Y, GN, BE, V, SL, W At the destination, it is easy to identify the source pin number. When you come to pin 10 start again at Black . . . [A] [B]

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A wire splice is a reasonable solution to connect a large gauge wire to DuPont pin connectors. If you need a higher current connection, use two DuPont pins. The reverse is also true; a 30 AWG sensor wire can be spliced to a more reasonable 22/24 AWG wire. [A.jpg] Works the other way too, smaller to larger: [image]