American Wire Gauge (AWG) is a logarithmic stepped standardized wire gauge system used since 1857, predominantly in North America, for the diameters of...
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Wire gauge is a measurement of wire diameter. This determines the amount of electric current the wire can safely carry, as well as its electrical resistance...
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British Standard Wire Gauge (often abbreviated to Standard Wire Gauge or SWG) is a unit for denoting wire size given by BS 3737:1964 (now withdrawn). It...
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Birmingham gauge is a wire gauge system, and is also used to specify thickness or diameter of hypodermic needles and tube products. Birmingham gauge is also...
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Wire gauge, a measure of the size of a wire American wire gauge, a common measure of nonferrous wire diameter, especially electrical Birmingham gauge...
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French catheter scale (redirect from French gauge)
"diameter in mm times 3" relationship. American wire gauge Birmingham gauge Poll, J. S. (1999). "The story of the gauge". Anaesthesia. 54 (6): 575–581. doi:10...
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Twisted pair (redirect from Twisted pair wire)
UTP cables. The cables are typically made with copper wires measured at 22 or 24 American Wire Gauge (AWG) (0.644 or 0.511 mm²), with the coloured insulation...
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record label 00 gauge, or OO gauge, a standard for model railways 00, a common international call prefix 00, an American wire gauge size 00, a Very Fine...
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Electrical wiring (redirect from Electrical wire)
standard wire sizes are given in the IEC 60228 standard of the International Electrotechnical Commission. In North America, the American Wire Gauge standard...
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chicken wire is available in various gauges—usually 19 gauge (about 1 mm wire) to 22 gauge (about 0.7 mm wire). Chicken wire is occasionally used to build inexpensive...
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The American wire gauge (AWG) and the Standard wire gauge (SWG) systems. AWG is usually, but not always the standard for defining the sizes of wire used...
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used in most parts of the world. American Wire Gauge (AWG), used primarily in the US and Canada Standard Wire Gauge (SWG), the British imperial standard...
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logarithmic, such as standard values for resistors, the American wire gauge, the Birmingham gauge used for wire and needles, and so on. bit, byte hartley nat shannon...
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The gauge numbers in SWG (standard wire gauge) and AWG (American wire gauge) reduce as the wire gets larger. Sizing in square millimeters is common outside...
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Usually the wire will require more than one draw, through successively smaller dies, to reach the desired size. The American wire gauge scale is based...
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Electrical conductor (section Wire size)
square millimetres. In North America, conductors are measured by American wire gauge for smaller ones, and circular mils for larger ones. The ampacity...
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industrial standards that it helped establish, including: The American wire gauge (AWG) standards for wire; The Brown & Sharpe taper in machine tool spindle tapers;...
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were examined in tensile strength ("pull") tests on 16 and 22 American wire gauge wire; even the short tie variation of the Western Union splice performed...
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present on the wire, such as the output of variable-frequency drives. American wire gauge Electrical wiring in the United Kingdom Twist-on wire connector National...
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United States customary units (redirect from American measurements)
Sheet metal in the U.S. is commonly measured in gauge (not to be confused with the American wire gauge), which is derived from weight and thus differs...
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Pressure measurement (redirect from Gauge pressure)
pressure) can be determined. This type of gauge was invented by Marcello Pirani. In two-wire gauges, one wire coil is used as a heater, and the other is...
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Body jewelry sizes (category Wire gauges)
Wire IEC 60228, the metric wire-size standard used in most parts of the world. American wire gauge, used primarily in the US and Canada Standard wire...
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IEC 60228 (category Wire gauges)
American Electrical industry standard for wires larger than 4/0. American wire gauge (AWG), used primarily in the US and Canada Standard wire gauge (SWG)...
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12 gauge may refer to: 12-gauge shotgun, the most popular shotgun shell 12 gauge sheet metal 12 gauge wire 12 Gauge (Kalmah album), 2010 album by Finnish...
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AWG is an abbreviation for American wire gauge. AWG may also refer to: In science and technology: Arbitrary waveform generator, a piece of electronic...
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and chain mail. They are made by wrapping wire around a mandrel to make a coil, then cutting the coil with wire cutters to make individual rings. The rings...
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constructed simply with a short piece of wire typically four American wire gauge (AWG) sizes smaller than the wire that is being protected. For example,...
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2/0 may refer to: A wire gauge size 2/0 in American wire gauge 2/0 in British Standard wire gauge "Two Divided by Zero", a song by Pet Shop Boys from...
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Category 5 cable (category Use American English from August 2022)
cables for backbone cabling is required to be no thicker than 22 American Wire Gauge (AWG) and no thinner than 24 AWG, or 26 AWG for shorter-distance...
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in a series of one or more for sizes larger than 1. For American Wire Gauge, the largest gauges are written 1/0, 2/0, 3/0, and 4/0 and pronounced "one...
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