> > I can't seem to find coloured hookup wire (purple, brown, > > gray, lime, orange, striped, etc -- anything other then red, black, > > white, green) almost anywhere. 18 and 20 AWG stranded. I've only > > found some at meci.com, but their website is really slow and kludgy, > > so I gave up after some time. And Digikey's prices seem high (~$20 > > per 100' roll). In New Zealand RS are the cheapest local source of coloured hookup wire in roll quantities in a good range of colours (full colour code range and a few more) . This pricing seems ridiculous given the fact that they are usually an extremely expensive supplier - but I'm not complaining :-) RM -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.