Best Wire For Halls Coming Out Of Shaft

[markz]

Using ribbon cable currently and its no bueno (not good)
need something tougher yet thin to hold up to the tightness coming out of the axle

 

[spinningmagnets]

Teflon insulation is thinner than the common PVC, with the added bonus that it is more tolerant than PVC in surviving high heat. The Hall wires will not generate heat, but the phase wires can get very hot, and the Hall wires will be pressed up against them, so...the thinner Hall wires cannot dissipate and heat-sink the heat away as fast as the fatter Phase wires, leading to PVC insulation failure...

I use 24ga, but you can easily go thinner. I can send you a foot's worth if it will help you see if 24ga with Teflon would fit your application.

 

[nutnspecial]

You two remind me of each other. In mannerism and more. Could be brothers from anotha motha or whatever They say?

Anyway I'm not sure why anyone would use ribbon cable (like from the older PC IDE's etc?), but markz why not just research what the most expensive equipment comes stock with? Also share why ribbon cable and what it's issue is. It's nice though SM drops in to mention teflon insul. I'd want to know also what strand count etc, but would guess, (such as with insulation common on high end), that the finer strand the better.


Not that it's for this purpose, but I'm curious if typical cat 5 or 6 network cable, stripped of outside jacket and re-sheathed in teflon would be any good. In the time it took me to type this I probably coulda found out from a basic search/

 

[tiny_n_terrible]

After stuffing the largest phase conductors through the drilled out axle hole in my hubmotors.
I would not be able to install ribbon cable.
I use what Spinningmagnets recommends small diameter hi temp teflon wire.