This new technical paper by Andy Price, Bob LePage, David Cormier and Jim Rennick from Circuit Technology Center explores ten crucial guidelines for secure, organized, and industry-standard attachment and routing of jumper wires on circuit board assemblies, ensuring reliability. This new technical paper by Andy Price, Bob LePage, David Cormier and Jim Rennick from Circuit Technology Center explores ten crucial guidelines for secure, organized, and industry-standard attachment and routing of jumper wires on circuit board assemblies, ensuring reliability. Today we will show you some of the different types of jumpers that you might encounter and also how to install and use these jumpers. Keep in mind, the jumpers we are using today are specific to one manufacturer and are not universal. They can bypass routing conflicts, connect optional circuit paths, support prototype testing, or help correct board-level issues after fabrication. Although jumper wires are simple, they. Wiring Jumpers Part 1: What They Are & Why We Use Them Important for a Professional Industrial Control Panel That is all we will cover today. They come in different sizes (usually color-coded) to handle different numbers and gauges of wires. Push-In Connectors (Wago. If in addition to the electrical cable entering the receptacle box you have an electrical cable or cables leaving the box to feed other receptacles downstream, you'll need to use jumpers to wire the receptacle correctly.