Technical Information

General notes on cables.

All cables are made up of a number of strands. Generally these strands are 0.20mm or 0.30mm diameter. In our list for each cable we also give the cross sectional area in sq mm and the continuous current carrying capacity in amps. 
The breakdown of the cable specification for example:
28/0.30mm, 2mm2, 17.5amp is as follows: 
28 strands of 0.30mm diameter, 2mm2 cross sectional area, 17.5amp continuous current carrying capacity.

The following equation may prove useful to work out a cable size required amps = watts/volts. 

Coloured cables. When two colours are given, the first colour is the main colour, the second colour is the 'tracer' (usually two thin traces of colour which run straight down the cable). eg. Black/white has black as the main colour and white as the tracer colour.
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Converting AWG (American Wire Gauge) to Metric.
AWG Size             Nearest Metric mm²
AWG22                 0.50mm²
AWG20                 0.50mm²
AWG18                 1.00mm²
AWG16                 1.50mm²
AWG14                 2.50mm²
AWG12                 4.00mm²
AWG10                 6.00mm²
AWG8                   10.00mm²
AWG6                   16.00mm²
AWG4                   25.00mm²
AWG2                   35.00mm²
AWG1                   50.00mm²
AWG2/0                70.00mm²
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