Question regarding wire

[wullymc]

Hi there,

With the PJCCS there is the part that calls for 2" of red Teflon wire from IA to IB.  My 2" was a bit short.  Idid not have enough red wire to make another 2" so I instead used the 20awg red wire that I had left over from my Quickie. 

My question is will this be okay?  I believe that I should be good but just wanted to check.

Also, how difficult is it to burn and injure a pcb board so it doesn't work.  I think I may have problems with IB.

Thanks...Dave

 

[4krow]

Dave,  For the purpose that you are using the wire, I think that it would be fine to use the red Quickie wire. As far as damaging the pc board, I won't say it is unlikely, but I'm betting that it looks worse than it is. When something like this does cause damage, I usually can find an alternate route by tracing where the pc trace goes to or comes from. It's not always pretty, but serves the same purpose.

 

[underdawg]

20 gauge should be fine as solid core is better than stranded in case of that application.

 

[wullymc]

Thanks very much for your replies gentlemen.

Much appreciated

Take care...Dave