Favorite Wire for External Sensors?

[CCS86]

Hey guys, anyone have a favorite jacketed wire, for connecting external sensors?

Some qualities that would be good:

• Black outer jacket, resistant to oil and heat
• Maybe even shielded to preserve signal quality
• Appropriate gauge
• 3 or more conductors for reference, ground, and signal; of one or two sensors.

I'm wondering whether just using high quality ethernet cable would be a good solution. It's shielded and 8 strand.

Anything I'm not considering?

[clshortt1]

I think ethernet cable is solid core isn't it? You local parts store should sell multi stranded wire, heat resistant. May not be shielded, but neither is factory wire carrying all those signals through the harness. Even high speeb bus wires are not shielded. The communications these cars/trucks carry is proprietary and the way it works it is not very vulnerable to outside interference.

[CCS86]

I think ethernet cable is solid core isn't it? You local parts store should sell multi stranded wire, heat resistant. May not be shielded, but neither is factory wire carrying all those signals through the harness. Even high speeb bus wires are not shielded. The communications these cars/trucks carry is proprietary and the way it works it is not very vulnerable to outside interference.

It is solid core. [edit] the CAT5 cable I picked up is actually multi-strand, which I haven't seen before.

Concerned about fatigue?

[07GTS]

yea i wouldnt use solid wire in automotive it will fatigue over time, use a good automotive mutli strand wire