wiring sources

For those of you who do your own wiring, where do you get your wires? The parts places around here have a limited assortment and it runs &8 per 25' roll. The home stores have even less selection and run $6 per 25'. Summit has a better selection and only run $5 per roll, but then you have to pay for shipping. So where do you guys go and how's the selection and pricing?

By the way, who would have thought finding orange 18-20 gauge wire would be such a tricky proposition? Good thing I don't need any of the grey with black stripe wire at the moment.

 

You don't wire everything in red o No:




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I don't have any good source, but it is a primary reason I purchase the wiring harness stuff from DIYautotune.com for the EFI. The wires are different colors with various colored stripes or banding. It might not be the cheapest source though, but it is nice to have. I've been known to re-purpose some of the extra wire for other projects so all my wiring isn't just red, green, blue, yellow and black.

 

I checked painless and they sell it in 50' rolls for $25 or so. To have the colors I'm looking at it would run me a couple hundred bucks if I got it all through them. Plus it seems silly to buy a 50' roll when I only need 10' at the most.

I try to keep the wiring somewhat color coded. I'm willing to use red in place of orange or pink, or blue in place of purple. It's just tricky when you wire in something that uses blue and purple or red and orange because it's harder to substitute colors without getting confused later. The guages I'm putting in now use red, orange, yellow, blue and black.

 

Try finding an electrical supply house in your area and ask them to order you some industrial control cable. We used to use a multi-conductor 19/22 or 19/25 cable which was available with from 7 to 21 individual conductors in it. The individual conductors were various colors and when the colors repeated they had a different colored "tracer" color along with the main color. As an example you would ask for a 12 conductor 19/25 cable. The wires themselves are rated at 600 volts and are made up of 19 strands of #22 gauge copper wires.