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source power cable for Pacific Records BMX-22

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JBstrikesagain

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Hi, I'm a volunteer at an up and coming LPFM station and we acquired one of these boards. It didn't come with the power cable. We hooked it with short sections of some 12 gauge jumper wire temporarily but I want to get a longer cable made. We could use jumper cable again but it requires 8 conductors. Here is what the manual says:

cable lengths up to 10 feet should be fabricated using 16 gauge wire. Cable lengths up to 20 feet should be fabricated with 14 gauge wire - Manual
eight wires

between the PSU and board each connection is labeled:

yellow
green
red
black
white
violet
orange
blue

It would be awesome if I could find a cable that contained 14 gauge wires with these color insulators. The closest thing i found was this:
http://www.dxengineering.com/parts/dxe-cw8-hd

but its is 8 Conductors, 2 x16 AWG, 6 x18 AWG, not all 16 gauge and definitely not 14 gauge. I looked around on many categories and set many filters on digikey and mouser but nothing was close. I also found some stuff on grainger but it was solid copper and/or made for burial. Is there another place that might have this type of thing? I'd just like to have a nice clean connection instead of 8 individual wires.. and color coded, even if not the original colors would be nice and less likely to be wired up incorrectly when we move.
 
Yikes. I found some on DigiKey but it's horribly expensive ($9/foot for 16-gauge, $14/foot for 14-gauge) and it looks like they only sell 100-foot reels...

Try this one on Allied Electronics: http://www.alliedelec.com/search/productdetail.aspx?SKU=70005098. They too look like they might only want to sell 100-foot boxes but I suppose it wouldn't hurt to call & ask whether they'll sell 10 or 20 feet. Allied doesn't seem to carry anything in 14 gauge.

What town are you in? If you still have a local electronic parts store, sometimes they have a reel of something like this & will be willing to sell you 10 or 20 feet cut off the end.
 
Surplus sales of Nebraska sometimes has odd lengths of multi-conductor that would fit your description.
 
Hi W9WI, I'm KG4AKV in Raleigh, NC. I appreciate the suggestion of looking locally as I hadn't tried it. I will look into Surplus sales too.
 
If you can't find any cable, I may have a piece of the traffic light cable in my pile 'o leftovers from directional AM projects depending on how much you need.
 
You don't need a jacketed multi-conductor cable for this.  Sure it's nice and pretty, but you can just buy a spool if 14-gauge wire and cut eight equal lengths.  Label each end with the name of the color/signal.  Twist them together and secure with cable ties every 10 inches or so.  You'll want to get some spade lugs to crimp on the ends and voila, home-made PR&E power cable. 
 
Telosian said:
You don't need a jacketed multi-conductor cable for this. Sure it's nice and pretty, but you can just buy a spool if 14-gauge wire and cut eight equal lengths. Label each end with the name of the color/signal. Twist them together and secure with cable ties every 10 inches or so. You'll want to get some spade lugs to crimp on the ends and voila, home-made PR&E power cable.
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Thanks to you and others, I think this is the easiest route for me and probably what I will go with.
 
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