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So if your sparky mate says you need 5mm cable, he’s referring to ISO cable. If you buy auto cable instead, then you’ll most likely buy cable way undersized for the job… and wonder why your fridge keeps cutting out. Input a value for the current of the system. This figure should be the peak current so that the cable can be sized for the worst case. Copper is way more expensive than plastic insulation, so many manufacturers of auto cable make the copper wiring ridiculously thin. Another example of auto cable. This cable gives you no useful information whatsoever! d n = 0.005 i n c h × 92 ( 36 − n ) / 39 = 0.127 m m × 92 ( 36 − n ) / 39 {\displaystyle d_{n}=0.005~\mathrm {inch} \times 92 Then 5% of the power produced by the solar panel is simply generating heat in the cable. You might decide this is acceptable or you might decide to increase the cable size for your fridge supply.

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Select which electrical system you will be using. Either DC/AC Single-phase or AC Three-phase. That means the calculator can be a simple DC wire size calculator, all the way up to an AC three-phase tool. You’ll see in the image above, it says “Size: 5mm (2.90mm 2)”. the 5mm refers to the diameter of the cable plus the insulation. You might think I’m being unfair. Okay, let’s increase our cable run by just one metre, to 3 metres. What happens? The required cross-sectional area jumps to 2.30 sq. mm, which means you have to use the next size up… 12 AWG.

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American Wire Gauge ( AWG), also known as the Brown & Sharpe wire gauge, is a logarithmic stepped standardized wire gauge system used since 1857, predominantly in North America, for the diameters of round, solid, nonferrous, electrically conducting wire. Dimensions of the wires are given in ASTM standard B 258. [1] The cross-sectional area of each gauge is an important factor for determining its current-carrying capacity. Most suppliers of auto cable don’t though. So you have no idea of what the cross-sectional area is. Change the temperature, if necessary. The value should be the maximum operating temperature that is expected for the wire. If you can’t measure an individual strand, then measure the diameter of the bundle. It’ll at least give you an indication of the cable’s size. This allows for a 3% voltage drop through the cable, which is acceptable for most automotive wiring jobs (3% of 12 volts = 0.36 volts). It’s a good guide.

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Increasing gauge numbers denote logarithmically decreasing wire diameters, which is similar to many other non-metric gauging systems such as British Standard Wire Gauge (SWG). However, AWG is dissimilar to IEC 60228, the metric wire-size standard used in most parts of the world, based directly on the wire cross-section area (in square millimetres, mm²). The AWG originated in the number of drawing operations used to produce a given gauge of wire. Very fine wire (for example, 30gauge) required more passes through the drawing dies than 0gauge wire did. Manufacturers of wire formerly had proprietary wire gauge systems; the development of standardized wire gauges rationalized selection of wire for a particular purpose. Say you have a terminal box and want to size the supply cable. Off the terminal box you have a compressor with a maximum current draw of 40 Amps and a fridge with maximum current draw of 10 Amps. Buy cable with an AWG size. This is an American Standard for cable sizes and you’ll likely get the correct cabling for the job.By definition, No. 36 AWG is 0.005 inches in diameter, and No.0000 is 0.46inches in diameter. The ratio of these diameters is 1:92, and there are 40 gauge sizes from No.36 to No.0000, or 39 steps. Because each successive gauge number increases cross sectional area by a constant multiple, diameters vary geometrically. Any two successive gauges (e.g., A and B ) have diameters whose ratio (dia. B ÷ dia. A) is 92 39 {\displaystyle {\sqrt[{39}]{92}}} (approximately 1.12293), while for gauges two steps apart (e.g., A, B, and C), the ratio of the C to A is about 1.12293 2 ≈ 1.26098. Select the wire conductor material, either copper or aluminum. You can also use Advanced mode to set a custom material resistivity at a fixed temperature. The hotter the cable, the more voltage drop through the cable. If you’re running a cable from a battery under the engine bay, it can get pretty hot… like 70 deg C or more. Say you run a positive cable from the battery to a compressor. Distance is 2 metres. If you run the negative to ground from the compressor at the compressor, then total cable length is 2 metres (plus a bit for the negative cable).

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The point is, the only information that’s useful is the cross-sectional area of the cable. Everything else is misleading rubbish.volts (2%) is best for large cables like battery cables 4AWG (25 ISO) or larger, carrying large currents. Why? Because they won’t heat up as much and the power loss will be lower (see below). Obviously the cable carries the current, so the cross-sectional area of the copper wire is super-important when you’re trying to size a cable. If measuring a single strand is too difficult, measure the diameter of the whole bundle. It’s not as accurate but will give you an indication at least. Just make sure you go down a cable size if you do this.

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Now, there’s a commonly used standard called the ISO Standard. A 5 ISO cable for example, has a cross-sectional area of 5mm 2 (or sq mm). Electricians often refer to it as a 5mm cable.Let’s stay with this example and see what maximum current the 14 AWG cable can handle over a 20 metre cable run. We’ll use the same values we started with above, then reduce the current until the cable cross-sectional area is below 2.1 sq. mm (or 14 AWG). gives a cable cross-sectional area of 1.53 sq. mm. This corresponds to a 14 AWG cable in the Cable Size Chart above. The AWG tables are for a single, solid and round conductor. The AWG of a stranded wire is determined by the cross-sectional area of the equivalent solid conductor. Because there are also small gaps between the strands, a stranded wire will always have a slightly larger overall diameter than a solid wire with the same AWG. If nothing else, this value gives you an idea of how much power you’re losing in your cables. Say you’re losing 5 Watts through your fridge cable, and say your solar panel is producing 100 Watts and powering your system. Voltage drop gets converted to heat in the cable. The lower the voltage drop, the less heat generated.