What wire gauge for non-voltage lines in supergun?

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What wire gauge for non-voltage lines in supergun?

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Right in the middle of building a supergun, so had to order some coloured wire for a home-made jamma extension cable:

http://www.ebay.de/itm/310407109121?ssP ... 1497.l2649

Turns out I didn't read the auction description properly and ended up with wire of a thickness of only 0,14mm². I'm using very thick wire for the voltage lines, so I'm not worrying about that, but I'm wondering if the thin wires I just bought have a low enough resistance for button presses to register properly? If not, what is the smallest thickness for wires I should use?

I can return the wire, only problem is nowhere on the net have i found a German shop that sells packets of wires in different colours...

Cheers fellas!
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20ga would be optimal, but really thin will probably work - remember how thick traces are on JAMMA boards.
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system11 wrote:remember how thick traces are on JAMMA boards.
thats always the way i like to think about it. i've seen people who want to use crazy thick cables to transfer a video signal thats coming from a 1mm pin on a video encoder chip. i wouldn't worry too much about wire gauge, use whatever you find easy to work with.
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using thicker gauge with possible shielding (coax) allows you to cross signal with voltage lines. I would make sure to use proper shielded coax for the RGBs lines, then the rest shouldn't matter.
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Great, thanks a lot for the help you guys!
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