I have a bunch of very thin insulated wire , could I join them paralell to make one length?

Question

I'm thinking of using it to make speaker wire. I have an awful lot of this wire, old telephone cables I think...

Answer 1

Do you mean to join them in a parallel circuit in order that the total can carry a lot more current than any one conductor carries?

Sure.

Probably the only thing that would stop you would be getting all those wires into whatever space you have to work with.

Edit: the only other thing I would add is that this would be fine for a small electronics project, or something like that.
I wouldn't do it with, say, a household circuit. There's no reason in theory that it couldn't work, but you'd be playing with fire.

Answer 2

I think you mean series, where the end of one wire is attached to the end of another wire to makes a longer total length. You could but you would need to make a solid connection at each joint and then insulate it with tape so it could not touch another wires connection near it.

I don't know how long a wire you need but there is a lot of cheap insulated cable available that could eliminate the need to do this. In addition if you needed to pull the wire through holes in the walls the lumpy joints between wires could make that impossible.

Answer 3

yes you could but don't do this for a long time use circuit. it could cause a fire.

Answer 4

yes/but you will not get full use of it