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You usually buy it. If you need just a short piece, and you have some single-conductor wire, you can measure out two pieces a little longer than you need, tie one end to something, and chuck the other ends in an electric drill to twist them. The wires will get shorter as you twist, so be sure to start out with longer pieces.

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How do you measure continuity on long wires?

Easy: make sure both ends of the cable are completely disconnected. Go to one end of the cable, twist 2 cores together for instance brown and blue. Now go to the other end of you cable and test the continuity between the brown and the blue cables. This will verify both of these cables are continuous.Now untwist the cables, and twist another pair together, say brown and green/yellow. Test again between these cable and you're done.If you are fault finding, you can use this to figure out which cable is broken.Say you get no continuity between brown and blue.Set the test up again, test brown to green/yellow and you get nothing again.Set the test up again, test blue to green/yellow... assuming you get a continuous signal here you can assume you have a problem with your brown wire.


Why single-core cable armoured with steel wire or tape must not be used for a c circuit?

Current in the single core cable would induce a magnetic current in the steel cable, though a transformer effect. This would heat the steel armored strands, and the circuit would increase more electrical power from the load supply point. The earthing of the cable glands would complete the circuit and the return current would flow in the earth bonding cable between the two points. This is called Eddy currents generated in the cable by the twist of the steel armored around the central core, current flowing in one direction


How do you use wire nuts?

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