Timeline for Do wires go bad?
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| Feb 9, 2021 at 12:01 | comment | added | Mołot | +1 but insulation can crack due to material fatigue and friction too. And it can age out faster than metal. Probably not an issue to the specific case, but worth noting for the general "Do wires go bad?". | |
| Feb 9, 2021 at 11:08 | comment | added | Graham | To add to this, a break in a wire from metal fatigue tends to result in an intermittent connection, because the insulation holds the now-disconnected ends close together, and wiggling the cable can push the ends back together. This makes it hard to spot. For an even more obscure fault, I once had a guitar cable which fatigued in some bizarre way which turned it into a low-pass filter - that was even harder to track down, because twanging a low E string to check the signal path was working! | |
| Feb 8, 2021 at 9:01 | history | edited | K H | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added mention of stranding.
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| Feb 8, 2021 at 8:52 | history | answered | Simon B | CC BY-SA 4.0 |