What Wire?

[Eaglezsoar]

The wire supplied with the kit seems both too small and too stiff to be used to run from the Hotend - thermistor to the Rambo.
I assume most users attach the wires to the Bowden tube and I would like to see what other builders used for the wire in question.
Silicon wire would be the most flexible but the cost is quite high. So what is best and in what gauges did everybody use?

[mhackney]

I used the stock and tied to the bowden. Works fine. However, the cartridge heater came with over 2' of silicone wire that would have reached over to the extruder arm. That would be a great alternative. I clipped mine because I didn't want to restring and zip tie.

[cambo3d]

there should be two different sizes wires, one is 18 awg the other is 22 awg. use the 22 for the steppers and the 18 awg for the hot end and other stuff.

[cjdavis618]

I used the same wire, but I didn't feel comfortable letting the wire stiffness affect the bowden tube. I chose a different route and secured a screw as a hitching post and seperated the 2 from each other. One other thing I had hoped to do is connect both hot end thermistors up and route them at the same time. But the secondary extruder kit didn't come with another thermistor lead to the rambo for the Rostock. So I will have to deal with that later.

This will explain it better.

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[img]http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/c ... 239002.jpg[/img]

[Eaglezsoar]

I used the same wire, but I didn't feel comfortable letting the wire stiffness affect the bowden tube. I chose a different route and secured a screw as a hitching post and seperated the 2 from each other. One other thing I had hoped to do is connect both hot end thermistors up and route them at the same time. But the secondary extruder kit didn't come with another thermistor lead to the rambo for the Rostock. So I will have to deal with that later.

This will explain it better.

Thanks for those pictures, they really explain what you did.