The Great Search: Wire Wrap Wire
Adafruit Industries
English - December 11, 2023 00:00 - 7 minutes - 20.8 MB Video - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsEducation Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Thin 30 AWG 'wire wrap' wire can be used to solder to fine pitch pins and parts for repairs or debugging. We always recommend every engineer have a roll on hand - even though it is not good for use with a breadboard, it's essential for repairing or hacking PCBs.
Originally these were used for point-to-point circuit creation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_wrap) with a wire-wrapping tool (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/jonard-tools/WSU-30M/5986) - before the cost of PCBs plummeted (https://www.digikey.com/en/resources/dkred).
Sometimes called Kynar wire, this is stocked at DigiKey - you might think "OK why is this a Great Search when you can just type wire wrap into the search box?" Well, watch to learn about a few options you may not have known about!
See the chosen part on DigiKey https://www.digikey.com/short/bjwtnph7
Don't forget, #DigiWish is happening right now on social media (https://twitter.com/digikey/status/1731349619836133553) Make sure to pick out something in stock from the DigiKey catalog and post up up every day - one person is selected each day to get their wish as a gift!