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<blockquote data-quote="IDSkoT" data-source="post: 5774250" data-attributes="member: 584344">Well, I sit back some nights, reading this forum. But, before I get on, I say to myself, &quot;People aren&#039;t dumb. People aren&#039;t dumb. They&#039;re smart. Maybe uneducated... but they have the capacity to learn.&quot;Then I go on... and I get proven wrong.Let me break this up... well, try:Unless you have an incredible drill that has an enormous amount of torque... nothing will happen. The rubber jacket will not break down any quicker than if they were running side by side. It&#039;s called physics. And twisting does not defy it.The man&#039;s name is Newton, by the way. The action of twisting the wires will make them twisted. There&#039;s the action, there&#039;s the reaction.The stress of twisting a wire lightly with a drill is the same stress as, I dunno... pulling on it? OH, WAIT! NO! THAT&#039;S GUNNA DEGRADE THE JACKET AND EVERYTHING WILL GET DESTROYEDANDYOUCANDIVIDEBYZEROANDNEWTONWASMYMASTERANDILOVEANALOMFG!!!!No. Twisting it with your average house hold drill will not put enough added stress on the jacket to make it degrade any faster. Perhaps the added stress will make it degrade a little faster. But the odds of a car lasting long enough for the wires internally to degrade is slim to none.With that said:The only way for a wire to &quot;loose&quot; (I&#039;m pretty sure you meant &#039;lose&#039;) information is for a weak connection. This can be either because of not a sufficient amount of power is going through the wire, or there is a break in the wire. Now, unless twisting wire can SOMEHOW cause the wire to tear internally (which, is actually possible, but HIGHLY unlikely with the amount of torque with a cordless drill. Even still, the jacket would have to be incredibly flexible, so much so that it can conceal this tear. But, even if it does tear internally and the jacket is not ripped, odds are the connection will be remade due to the pressure on the wire and the elasticity of the jacket.), it will not do this. In fact, in most applications, the wire will only need one or two strands connected at any point to send a sufficient amount of data seeing how it&#039;s in the form of &quot;on&quot; or &quot;off.&quot; (Ground or not, etc.)Recap: Twisting Wires is only bad if you use a lot of torque.Regular House Hold Drills do not have a lot of torqueBassFegg is an idiot.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="IDSkoT, post: 5774250, member: 584344"] Well, I sit back some nights, reading this forum. But, before I get on, I say to myself, "People aren't dumb. People aren't dumb. They're smart. Maybe uneducated... but they have the capacity to learn." Then I go on... and I get proven wrong. Let me break this up... well, try: Unless you have an incredible drill that has an enormous amount of torque... nothing will happen. The rubber jacket will not break down any quicker than if they were running side by side. It's called physics. And twisting does not defy it. The man's name is Newton, by the way. The action of twisting the wires will make them twisted. There's the action, there's the reaction. The stress of twisting a wire lightly with a drill is the same stress as, I dunno... pulling on it? OH, WAIT! NO! THAT'S GUNNA DEGRADE THE JACKET AND EVERYTHING WILL GET DESTROYEDANDYOUCANDIVIDEBYZEROANDNEWTONWASMYMASTERANDILOVEANALOMFG!!!! No. Twisting it with your average house hold drill will not put enough added stress on the jacket to make it degrade any faster. Perhaps the added stress will make it degrade a little faster. But the odds of a car lasting long enough for the wires internally to degrade is slim to none. With that said: The only way for a wire to "loose" (I'm pretty sure you meant 'lose') information is for a weak connection. This can be either because of not a sufficient amount of power is going through the wire, or there is a break in the wire. Now, unless twisting wire can SOMEHOW cause the wire to tear internally (which, is actually possible, but HIGHLY unlikely with the amount of torque with a cordless drill. Even still, the jacket would have to be incredibly flexible, so much so that it can conceal this tear. But, even if it does tear internally and the jacket is not ripped, odds are the connection will be remade due to the pressure on the wire and the elasticity of the jacket.), it will not do this. In fact, in most applications, the wire will only need one or two strands connected at any point to send a sufficient amount of data seeing how it's in the form of "on" or "off." (Ground or not, etc.) Recap: Twisting Wires is only bad if you use a lot of torque. Regular House Hold Drills do not have a lot of torque BassFegg is an idiot. [/QUOTE]

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