Features:

  • Product Name :Silicone Wire; Wire Type :30AWG;
  • Material : Silicone rubber , Tinning Copper;
  • Voltage Rating: 600 Volts ,Rated temperature: -60 C - + 200 C
  • Wire Length :10M / 33Ft each color
  • External Color : Black red blue green yellow
Surprisingly good quality... made a bunch of custom harnesses out of it, definitely 18 AWG

Lately, buying electrical supplies sourced from the gray market is a bit of hit and miss. I find this especially bad with wire. Either the specs are way off, or the material is trash quality (i.e., contaminated copper). With this hook-up wire: you get a 2.1mm outer-diameter jacket of silicon which holds up nicely, and has good flex qualities. The conductor is 1.08mm which checks out for 18AWG (18 gauge = 1.02mm), and the stranded core does appear to be decent quality tinned copper. I verified there is copper in there by scraping and scoring the strands. I've built several custom power harnesses out of this for computer related applications and I've been happy. So far I've had multiple harnesses in service 24/7 for almost a year with about 9A of load @ 12V, and the wire has held up perfectly- See attached picture of one of the harnesses.

Handy 22 AWG tinned stranded silicone coated wire dispenser

This appears to be pretty decent stranded wire for small projects where good flexibility and heat resistant insulation are desired. This wire is nice to solder because the strands are tinned and the insulation does not melt while soldering. The wire dispenser works pretty well and the five spools of different color wire seem to not get tangled inside the dispenser.

The Best Trend in Hookup Wire

I went looking for a decent 24 gauge wire for doing hookup work on guitars, and other small electronics. I've used lots of wire, but I had never come across Silicone shielded wire, and it wasn't terribly expensive, so I picked up this box. This wire is a dream to work with. The silicone shielding is very easy to strip, the shielding doesn't melt when getting soldered, and the wire is extremely flexible, and has no real memory. It's closer in flexibility to a nylon string than a copper wire. This may not be to everyone's liking, but it certainly was really nice in the few projects I've used it in. If you need quality small gauge stranded wire, and aren't afraid of trying something new, I highly recommend you get a box of this to try out.

Good wire, tiny box.

I’m using this to wire the electronics in guitars and basses. It’s very flexible. Works great. The box is tiny...don’t be surprised when it arrives. The whole spindle system in the box sucks. Just pull the wire out however you like. It’s gonna get a little tangled no matter what.

This Wire is Excellent - the Box is Not

I use this gauge (gage) wire for electronic projects for my model railroad. It has good electrical characteristics, the silicon insulation is suited to the wire and strips easily. Pre-tinning makes soldering a joy. I am very happy with it and when it is used up, I'll purchase more. I gave it 5 stars for the wire itself. The box is another matter but it doesn't harm the wire's rating. They should put "Assembly Required" in their advertising. You must remove each spool to undo the knot placed on the wire to hold them together after being wound. I wound up removing all the spools at once. I wish I had thought of securing each spool with tape as another reviewer suggests. DUH. Then you must thread each wire through its hole in the box- not difficult but it is tedious. Don't forget to remove the punched out shard that's in the way. Kind of like Florida elections gone by. If you want to use the exit holes that don't get covered up by the box flap, those are the wrong color and don't match the wire colors. If you use the correctly colored holes, you will have to raise the box flap for each use. Doing this, after adding additional cardboard under the box lid to "tension" the spools as that same reviewer suggests. Of course raising the flap takes all "tension" off of the spools and exposes the open box and spools inviting tangles galore. It's not quantum science, but it could be a project. BTW, what in the world are the two supplied zip-ties for? Thanks for letting me rant. I like the wire a lot.

Very nice flexible 200c 600v silicone wire Solders easily

I like wire like this for most purposes. It has a 200c rating stamped on it along with 600v rating, the manufacturer name, gauge and product number. You know what you’ve got here and it’s good. It also is very flexible and solders extremely well. As others have said, the insulation won’t shrink or burn like vinyl will. The only downside to silicone insulation is that it lacks abrasion resistance. In fact, you can strip off the insulation with your finger nail. So use this where the wire won’t be worked or scraped. The other downside to this flexible wire is that it wants to unwind itself from the roll and thus the wires can get tangled. The way I handled this is a little different than the method described below another user. The idea is to have the wire wind off the bottom of the roll so the rolls weight on the roll flanges keeps the wires isolated from each other. The photos show the method I used. Note that flap of the box covers the exit holes so I used the exit holes in the back of the box. I also added some paper and bubble wrap on top of the rolls before closing the box in order to apply tension to the roll.

Perfect for Quads! (20g)

Very flexible and perfect size "20g" if you're using on quads/drones like I am. Wire is the same size you get on motors and esc's from the factory. Very satisfied with this purchase.

Strong and Flexible (30 AWG)

This wire is amazing. Usually it is very difficult to work with wire this thin, however, this wire has an excellent easy to remove coating. It can handle 750F heat for soldering (the wire not the silicone). When soldering, the silicone coating does not easily melt. It is extremely strong and flexible. This wire is recommended for projects where your wires will extend off of the PCB board. For example, if you have a wires going to an external sensor. This is very strong and the flexibility keeps the solder points from breaking away from the PCB. The box is great too (once you put some tape on it to keep it shut). This is one of the best sets of wire I have purchased in a long time.

Box isn't that great, but wire is fantastic

The other reviews on this product are accurate. The box and wire feeding is pretty terrible... but after you unspool about 10% of the wire its pretty good. The wire itself is very high quality. I bought this specifically to create additional test leads for multimeters/powersupplies/etc, in which this wire works perfectly. The stranded wire is very fine and the silicone insulation is very flexible. I've also used this for 120V controls wiring where it works excellently also. Its rated for 300V, 18AWG is good for ~5amps and this wire is MUCH easier to work with than any typical 120V wiring that you would get from a home improvement store.

Tips on smart usage

These are high quality silicon insulated wires. Description mentioned max temperature only 150C but it is actually 200C stamped on the wires. It is important because during soldering they don't burn like cheaper PVC insulation. These wires are the best for the soldering prototyping board - flexible, low impedance and not burned insulation. Deal is good too. Don;t confuse this set with cheaper one which has PVC insulation. It is important because during soldering they don't burn like cheaper PVC insulation. I attached here images of how I setup this wire box. The goal is to prevent entanglement between spools wires while you use them. If not doing it right it is even hard to place spools in box because wires get entangled . 1. before putting spools in the box place sticky tape on the top of each spool to prevent entanglement while setting up (picture 1) 2. after putting spools in the box, drive wires through the respective holes according to the color, then prepare a folded piece of carton to place on the top of the spools 3. now you can remove tapes from spools, place folded carton on the top to keep spools pressed and wires kept in the spools and fully close the box (picture 2) 4. tape the flap of the box as shown on my pictures and end of the wires are waiting to be pulled. That's it. Now, if you did it right, the wires will not entangle , pulling will be smooth, work is easy. (picture 3) Enjoy

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