Tefzel comes in lots of colors, red included.
I don’t think normal aviation wire is Tefzel. It is irradiated PVC e.g. Raychem Type 55 is by far the most common.
You can get it in different colours but most people use only white because
IMHO the wire in that aircraft is not heat resistant, but may be the next grade up from plain old PVC which is +70C max.
Peter wrote:
I don’t think normal aviation wire is Tefzel. It is irradiated PVC e.g. Raychem Type 55 is by far the most common
ETFE is Tefzel isn’t it, Tefzel being the Dupont tradename for ETFE? Might be wrong. Most wiring is MIL SPEC 27500 of 22759 and available from quite a lot different sources. Raychem’s Type 55 is one of them.
I do use different colours, which is slightly more expensive than using white. Different colours make future upgrade and troubleshooting far more easy. Same is true for wire marking, which I also use for the same reasons.
You could well be right Jesse.
However, I have bought this wire many times and have always found that it is only in the 300ft reels that one gets a colour choice or indeed a decent choice of conductor styles. And those reels cost a huge amount of money, and no homebuilder will want to buy that much. The people who sell it by the metre sell just white, IME.
