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Does the AWG of a wire stand for the size of wire?
It stands for American Wire Gauge and a designation like 10 AWG indicates the size. There are a number of other specifications which derive from the cross sectional area of the wire as designated by the gauge. One confusing aspect is as the number of the gauge gets smaller the current carrying capacity increases.
What gauge wire are 4 24 gauge wires equal to?
Look up a wire table on google. The table tells you the cross-section area area of the 24 g wire. Multiply that by 4 then find the gauge that gives the new cross-section. A 24 AWG wire has a cross-section of 0.205 sq.mm. Four of those have a c/s area of 0.82 sq. mm. so the nearest equivalent wire is 21 AWG at 0.81 sq. mm.
What does 250kcmil AWG mean?
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.
Why drop voltage in xlpe cable is more than PVC cable?
The voltage drop in a wire has nothing to do with the insulation. Voltage drop has to do with the cross sectional area of the wire.
what electrical wire size is largest?
Wire size 0000 AWG is the largest electrical wire. It is 0.46 inches in diameter or 11.86 mm in diameter. The cross sectional area is 107.16 mm(squared).
What is the function of a wire gauge?
The gauge of a wire measures its cross-sectional area and helps determine its current carrying capacity.
What was the function of wire gauge?
The gauge of a wire is related to its cross sectional area and therefore defines its current carrying characteristics.
What is the mean of 3 29 wire?
3 is the number of conductors and 29 is wire gauge(either in diameter or cross sectional area)
Is the resistance of the wire directly or inversely proportional to the cross-sectional area of the wire?
When it is on the cross-sectional area it is inversely proportional to the wire,otherwise it is directly proportional to the wire.
What is the cross sectional area of a wire?
If you slice a wire cleanly and then look at the cut end, you see a little circle at the end. The area of that circle is the "cross-sectional area" of the wire. The larger that area is, the lower the DC resistance of the wire is.
What is the function of the wire gauge?
Wire gauge is a measurement of how large a wire is, either in diameter or cross sectional area. This determines the amount of electric current a wire can safely carry, as well as its electrical resistance and weight per unit of length.
Do bend in the wire effect the electric resistance?
The resistance is based on the cross sectional area. It is conceivable that you could bend a wire in such a way as to affect the cross sectional area, but unlikely.
What happens to the cross-sectional area of metal wire if you double the diameter?
If the diameter doubles (x2), the cross-sectional area quadruples (x4).
How do you work out the cross-sectional area of a wire?
Imagine the wire is straight, now cut through at right angle to the centre line, the exposed surface is the cross sectional area, on a round wire it = pi * radius2 (area of a circle)
How does the cross sectional area of wire affect resistance?
Other things being equal, more cross-sectional area will cause less resistance.
What type of wire increases when it is made thinner?
Since resistance is inversely-proportional to cross sectional area, the lower the cross-sectional area, the higher the resistance. So ALL types of wire exhibit this behaviour!
What happens to its cross-sectional area of the metal wire if you double the radius?
It quadruples.
