22 Gauge Silicone Wire Spool 100 ft Black Flexible 22 AWG Stranded Tinned Copper Wire

Excellent wire for hobby applications, especially for interior repairs and rewiring of vintage Lionel trains.

This 22 AWG (gauge) silicone insulated wire is excellent for indoor or protected environments where high flexibility/lack of stiffness, and non-melting (or at least melt resistant) insulation is required. The conductors are a 'high strand count" type, meaning that instead of being comprised of just a few larger/thicker strands, it is instead comprised of a much greater number of smaller/thinner strands; and this contributes to its lack of stiffness/great flexibility. The other contributing factor to the high flexibility is that the insulation is silicone rubber, rather than the more common PVC (which is rather stiff). This kind of high strand count, silicone rubber insulated wire is exactly what high quality test equipment 'test leads' have been made of for decades. The silicone rubber is also much less heat sensitive than more common insulations such as PVC or "machine tool wire". It won't melt off as readily as PVC insulation does if your soldering iron needs to be held onto a joint or terminal for an extended period of time. The fine wire strands are also nicely tinned, and the insulation strips off easily and cleanly, and the stranded wire solders easily. It is a good quality product at an affordable price. HOWEVER, it is not the best choice for many common "hook up wire" applications, since its lack of stiffness can be an issue; the strands definitely need to be twisted and soldered in order to keep their shape enough to be formed into a hook before soldering around a terminal for example. This wire also does not want to cooperate if you want to twist a few of them together, because their limpness makes them uncooperative in that regard. And if you use this wire in "hook up wire" applications, it wants to just flop into some odd position rather than 'staying put' where you want it to be. Silicone rubber insulation is also not that great when it comes to abrasion resistance, and resistance to some kinds of oils and such where other insulations may be preferable.

I love using this wire for my End Fed Half Wave Antenna. The wire is so easy to wind up/ unwind without kinking. Highly recommend this for portable antenna wires.

The spool label is marked as 22 AWG. The wire is unmarked.

Very high quality wire. Available in several colors and gauges.

I just needed some lightweight antenna wire that can handle a couple of amps at low voltage.. this works.

I bought three different gauges (18, 20, & 22) to use for making custom computer power wires, and it worked great. This is a good price for tinned copper wire of this length and with a silicone jacket, and IIRC there weren't even many options when I was looking. The silicone really makes it extremely flexible, which I learned after I bought it that is typically NOT what you want when doing custom cabling, as wires need to be stiff to hold their positions, but it's exactly what I needed for the project. The other caveats with silicone insulation for such a project are that it's harder to push terminals into connectors, since the flexibility causes the wire to bend, and you can't melt sleeving or heatshrink to it like you can with normal insulation, but obviously this isn't an issue with the wire, just something to keep in mind if you're looking to use it for that. It wasn't a problem for me, as ideally you should melt/shrink it to the terminal, which is what I did. Also, for anyone looking to use it for what I did, I got the smaller gauges (higher numbers) because I was daisy-chaining SATA power connectors together, meaning I had to crimp two wires to each terminal, and they're tiny. The 18 AWG wire was still plenty small for that, and of course allows for more current, which I needed, so I didn't need the smaller wires. Still, it's nice to have them, and if I decide to make a fan extension I'll use one of them for that.

Good quality wire. Much better than typical PVC wire. It strips very easily and cleanly and because the insulation is silicone rubber, it doesn’t melt when soldering or deform when using heat-shrink. Very flexible and easy to work with. I use it for wiring the electronics when building or modifying electric guitars and use four different colors – black for ground, white for hot, and gray and red for jumpers. Very happy with this wire. Tiny zip-ties help to keep the wires organized and where you want them.