It is a wire size, the equivalent cross sectional area in thousands of circular mils. e.g. 500 MCM or kcmil = 500,000 circular mils. The circular mil is a unit of area used especially when denoting the cross-sectional size of a wire. It is the equivalent area of a circle whose diameter is 0.001 (10-3) inch. AWG stands for American Wire Guage.
12 awg is larger.
I think you mean either what is the correct size or minimum wire size needed when a branch circuit is protected by a 20 A breaker. The size is 12 American Wire gauge (AWG). 14 AWG is used for 15 A circuit and 10 AWG for a 30 A breaker. The lower the gauge the larger the cross-section of the wire.
The larger the AWG number the smaller the wire. 10 AWG wire can carry more current than 12 AWG wire.The wire sizes of 24 and 26 are the smallest that are used in the electrical.See related links below
AWG # 6 copper or AWG # 4 aluminum
AWG 2/0 hots with a 1/0 awg neutral with a bare 6 grnd or a 3/0 awg comerrcial
I think you mean 16 AWG THWN. It's coating for PVC piping.
Smaller numbers mean thicker wires
American Wire Gauge
American Wire Guage. The smaller the number the larger the wire. As in an AWG 14/2 wire is much smaller than an AWG 10/2 wire.
12 awg is larger.
7 strands of 29 gauge (AWG) wire
American Wire Gauge ( AWG )
AWG plc was created in 1973.
28 awg 1p for data, 24 awg 2c for power. i'm searching for differences bteween 1p and 2c code...
22 AWG has a diameter of 0.0253 inch.
AWG is American wire gauge and SWG means Standard wire gauge .. swg+1=awg according to my calculation...
I think you mean either what is the correct size or minimum wire size needed when a branch circuit is protected by a 20 A breaker. The size is 12 American Wire gauge (AWG). 14 AWG is used for 15 A circuit and 10 AWG for a 30 A breaker. The lower the gauge the larger the cross-section of the wire.