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  2. IEC 60228 - Wikipedia

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    Comparison of SWG (red), AWG (blue) and IEC 60228 (black) wire gauge sizes from 0.03 to 200 mm² to scale on a 1 mm grid – in the SVG file, hover over a size to highlight it. In engineering applications, it is often most convenient to describe a wire in terms of its cross-section area, rather than its diameter, because the cross section is directly proportional to its strength and weight ...

  3. Ampacity - Wikipedia

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    For example, the United States National Electrical Code, Table 310.15(B)(16), specifies that up to three 8 AWG copper wires having a common insulating material (THWN) in a raceway, cable, or direct burial has an ampacity of 50 A when the ambient air is 30 °C, the conductor surface temperature allowed to be 75 °C. A single insulated conductor ...

  4. American wire gauge - Wikipedia

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    The table below assumes DC, or AC frequencies equal to or less than 60 Hz, and does not take skin effect into account. "Turns of wire per unit length" is the reciprocal of the conductor diameter; it is therefore an upper limit for wire wound in the form of a helix (see solenoid), based on uninsulated wire.

  5. Copper conductor - Wikipedia

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    However, any corrosion oxides, chlorides, and sulfides that do form on copper are somewhat conductive. [13] [17] Under many application conditions copper is higher on the galvanic series than other common structural metals, meaning that copper wire is less likely to be corroded in wet conditions. However, any more anodic metals in contact with ...

  6. International Annealed Copper Standard - Wikipedia

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    The International Annealed Copper Standard (IACS) is a standard established in 1914 by the United States Department of Commerce. [1] It is an empirically derived standard value for the electrical conductivity of commercially available copper .

  7. Mineral-insulated copper-clad cable - Wikipedia

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    Mineral-insulated copper-clad cable is a variety of electrical cable made from copper conductors inside a copper sheath, insulated by inorganic magnesium oxide powder. The name is often abbreviated to MICC or MI cable, and colloquially known as pyro (because the original manufacturer and vendor for this product in the UK was a company called ...

  8. Power cable - Wikipedia

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    Power cables use stranded copper or aluminum conductors, although small power cables may use solid conductors in sizes of up to 1/0. (For a detailed discussion on copper cables, see: Copper wire and cable.). The cable may include uninsulated conductors used for the circuit neutral or for ground (earth) connection.

  9. Category 4 cable - Wikipedia

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    Category 4 cable (Cat 4) is a cable that consists of eight copper wires arranged in four unshielded twisted pairs (UTP) supporting signals up to 20 MHz. [1] It is used in telephone networks which can transmit voice and data up to 16 Mbit /s.