Make your breadboard jumpers well ahead of time.
A good source for wires is old computer and Telco cables.
For breadboards, I recommend Telco #22 and #24 AWG wires, but prefer #24.
Both stranded and solid #24 AWG is available in the Telco color code scheme.
My preference is to use #24 AWG ‘stranded wire’ for jumpers but you must do some work to make them usable.
The Telco coloring has five tracer group colors: White, Red, Black, Yellow and Violet.
Each tracer group, has five color pairs: Blue, Orange, Green, White and Slate.
One complete bundle contains 25 pairs or 50 wires.
50 wire colors give a well diversified color layout for your breadboard projects.
I like the version where the insulation is one solid color (eg: White) with a quick splash of color (eg: Blue)
W/BE is the TIP wire and BE/W is the RING wire.
A big part in wire preparation is the tinning of the stranded wire.
A solder pot is ideal but a soldering iron is adequate; using flux is advised.
