I used 20 gage, silver colored, craft wire to make a ring, and it turned out really nice. But the silver color is coming off and exposing the copper underneath. It's ok that my ring is turning, but I made some for friends and concerned that their rings might turn as well. Am I using the wrong wire? I want to make jewlry I can be proud of. Laurie

If you're trying to convert a STEREO output to feed MONO headphones, the best is to use a resistive splitter network as shown.
There are adapters out there that simply short the two L/R signals from the stereo, but you run a risk of overloading the output stages of your amp.
The resistive network places a current-limiting resistor on each stereo output in series, so eliminating shorts and overload.
If using a mic-enabled headset, the jack has 4 connectors, the back one nearest the plastic case being for MIC.
Mono: Tip, Sleeve.
Stereo: Tip, Ring, Sleeve.
Incl Mic: Tip, Ring, Sleeve, Mic.
Tip is Left, usually Green.
Ring is Right, usually Red.
Sleeve is common GND, usually bare copper or black.
Mic can vary according to manufacturer. Seen striped colors, white, red, purple.
These thin shellac-coated wires are sometimes difficult to solder, so here are some tips:
Using a combination of fine emery paper, craft-knife and flame, try to burn/scrape/clean about 5 mm from each wire.
Copper should be shiny without shellac color showing at end.
To burn the shellac off, best hold the wire 5 mm or so back with pliers or fingers. The shellac varnish may ignite the whole wire if you don't block it first.
Diagrams and drawings should help to clarify the text.

Good question, proper wiring is a crucial virtue that needs to be one hundred percent accurate.

Three wires showing from the ceiling lamp fixture harness, positive, negative, and ground.

The negative wire is the white wire,
The Hot wire (positive) is the wire of brighter color than known negative,
220V AC (alternating current) home wiring to(" duplex outlet switch, GFI switch, single/dual pole light switch, lamp fixtures,") the Hot wire or lead, is normally Black, the lighter color, or White is neutral or neggative,
Neutral wire (completes circuit) allows current flow to continue through to other parts of house, Alternating current.

The Ground wire is usually wrapped in green color, or unmarked copper.

The copper wire from the ceiling will need to be grounded to the metal bracket on the new light fixture, a gold or silver screw, sometimes tagged with green, is the proper grounding location, Any place on Metal not attached to ceiling bracket, Ground should be attached to metal on fan,

White wire from Fan is neutral, Negative.
Black wire from Fan is Hot Wire, Positive,
If Blue wire from Fan is Not Manufacture spliced, Meaning no Copper is exposed, Wire is not used, Blue wire is NOT ground,
If Fan has a light, Voltage from Hot Black wire will supply both light and fan functions,

Safety First.
flip off breaker switch to the room fan is being installed.

Doubble Check
Black^Black wire connection is secure.

White^White neutral wire connection is secure.

Ground is fastened securely to metal or wrapped under a screw.

Using splice caps is recomended, The plastic shell encloses the wire connection ensuring No stray copper is exposed, limits possibility of cross wiring.

Google the brand of fan being installed, and Check wire color code, and wiring diagram, Info good to have, and checking twice will only guarantee Lamp Fixture Install Well Done.

(Blue wire may be there for installing multiple ceiling fixtures in a loop circuit, so all controlled by same light switch.)


Enjoy Your New Fan,

Jos
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Depending on the length needed, you can also use plain old lamp cord. Lamp cord is sold by the foot and comes in different colors to blend with your decor. It is 18 ga and has one side that is ribbed so you can keep the correct phase (for example red = ribbed). There is also "speaker wire" which is usually clear-jacketed and the wires themselves are color coded (copper and silver). Don't waste $$ on fancy wires but do make sure to use 18 ga or thicker (16 or 14 for longer runs). Solid copper (not CCA, copper coated aluminum) is best but you don't need "oxygen-free). Monoprice.com is an excellent source of cables of all kinds or just go to Lowe's, Sears, Radio Shack etc.

Without knowing the make & model of your ceiling fan, I can't answer exactly, but I'll do my best.

You probably have black, white & green wires. Green is always ground, which means it gets attached to the metal box or ground wire you are connecting to.
Since you're connecting (presumably) to an AC current, you should try to connect black to black and white to white. If you have some other colors, it shouldn't really matter.

HOWEVER! If you're connecting aluminum to copper wire, you should not use the regular wire nuts. Copper is much softer than aluminum. Instead of winding around each other, which holds the wires well, the copper will wind around the aluminum.
This means the copper could slip off the aluminum, exposing wires. (translation: BAD THING!!)

Copper + aluminum = No wire hangers... err.... No wire nuts.

sorry partner you have a prob. no changing wires will ever work in the corder . try the shopping for systems that are compatible to the tv monitor hook up .. looks like a really nice camera too .

You should know every trick in the book, not every body runs wire welding machines or even knows what one does. There are a bunch of things that will color wire, but you might not get the color off. Ferric Chloride, steel ink, liver something? I know the steel ink will come off, the ferric chloride might not, also a potent acid. Used in copper etching. And the liver ? I can't remember what it is called, but it is used to patina silver jewelry. Hope this helps.

Copper color is Positive (+) and Silver color is Negative (-).

i simply used my brain and hooked the copper wire to positive(red), and the silver wire to negative(black), being that the colors are similar. works fine.

Standard household electrical devices have the following color convention:

copper screw = hot = black wire
silver = neutral = white wire
green = ground = green or bare copper wire

I'd go with the obvious.