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Many electrical applications use twisted-pair cables in which the ground and signal wires spiral about each other. Why?
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These cables consist of a pair of wires that are twisted together. One of these wires is the ground wire, and the other is the signal wire. They are twisted in a spiral manner around each other. Show more…
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