I'm doin this thing where I need to connect some wires and one part uses Apple iPod headphones. Inside those wires, they have insulation. I burnt the wires so the insulation would not be in the way. Will the wires still conduct the electricity? Or will I just need to find some other headphones without insulation to do this with?
It would help to know exactly what you're trying to do here. Like Gary said, I'm not sure what you mean by inside those wires they have insulation. I'm trying to guess what you're trying to do here and you say you need to connect some wires. Are you trying to connect two sets of insulated wires together? If so, I'm guessing that you needed to strip the insulation off of the ends of the wires to expose the conductors and connect together? If that's the case, usually we use a wire stripper or a small razor blade to cut the insulator around the wire and then pull off the sheath, leaving clean wire underneath. Burning the insulation off is not going to make copper wire not work (if you oxidized the copper, you'd have to heat it way hotter than a typical flame, and it would not be metal any more--it would be crispy). So if you still have flexible metal left over after burning off the insulation, then you still have a conductor. The problem, and the reason why we don't usually burn off insulation is that you're going to end up with a bunch of burnt up goo and oxides on the surface of your wire which will make it not connect well with another wire surface to surface. You can probably solve this problem by lightly sanding or scratching the burnt parts of the wires. Or just cut off the burnt part and try stripping it with a blade instead. Then make sure to insulate your connection with electrical tape or something so that you don't have bare wires that can touch each other and short out. If you're trying to do something different, please explain more. In general, though, you're not going to ruin copper by burning it, but you will tend to coat the outside of the wire with stuff that doesn't insulate well. You want shiny copper when you are connecting two pieces together.
The undertaking of the conductors interior the cable won't regulate, however the insulation would burn and allow the conductors to the touch, making a short circuit. this could circumvent the I Pod working and would harm the output amplifier.
It depends. If the wires themselves got oxidized when you burned the insulation off, they will not conduct electricity as well as they did before. On the other hand, if you burned them in a way that converted the non-conducting plastics (organic polymers) into graphite (pure carbon) the wires might conduct a little better (because graphite conducts electricity). When you say there is insulation inside the wires, you may be confused. Some small electrical wires contain threads braided or twisted in with the fine copper wires to increase strength. These threads are usually non-conductors so, technically, I guess you could call them insulators but they are not in there to prevent one wire from making electrical contact with another wire. You can check if the wire still conducts elecricity with a battery and the bulb out of a flashlight. good luck
