[feature] Multiple colors per wire

[viperdream26]

Is it possible to have multiple colors per wire? If not possible yet, it would be a huge improvement. Thanks for all the hard work!

[aakatz3]

Out of curiosity, would this be something like striped/banded wires, like in CAT-5, or the 25 color code?

Or, do you mean something like a red wire becomes a white wire as it's daisy-chained along?

[viperdream26]

@aakatz3 I meant striped/banded wires, which are incredibly common.

You bring up another interesting point there, but I don't know how common that is?

[aakatz3]

Striped/banded should theoretically be easy, I do need to look into the code a bit to see if a pattern is possible, and then maybe you can specify a primary/secondary.

While it shouldn't be common, I've seen it in a car harness once or twice, and I can imagine a formula SAE team may want that feature, but it's probably bad practice.

[chrisalbertson]

I certainly make cables using striped wire.

I try really hard to never do the second thing and change wire color but just recently I had to. I have motors that have wires with red, black, white, yellow, and these needed to be extended with a cable that had red, black, white, BLUE. I hate splicing cables where the colors don't match but some times there is no other option. It would be nice to be able to document this.

More:

• It would be nice if there were a way to capture the length of a cable.

• Also some connector shells allow mixed genders where each pin can be M or F.

• Then there are the "genderless" type that mate with themselves

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 2:25 PM Andrew Katz notifications@github.com wrote:

Out of curiosity, would this be something like striped/banded wires, like in CAT-5 http://wiringwizard.com/primer/cables/cat5/rj45.gif, or the 25 color code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25-pair_color_code#25-pair_telco_cable_pinout ?

Or, do you mean something like a red wire becomes a white wire as it's daisy-chained along?

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[holgua]

@aakatz3 I meant striped/banded wires, which are incredibly common.

I would love to have that feature as well. In vintage automotive wiring it is common to use striped wires (green-white, white-green, ...). Without it, it's impossible to tell circuits apart.

e.g. temperature gauge hooked up via red-white wire here https://www.mre-books.com/electric/images/wiring1.jpg

[formatc1702]

96 has been merged into dev and will be part of v0.2