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vr6ofpain
06-18-2005, 11:07 AM
Is there a formula to figure out what ~gauge wire you would have, if you have more than one strange of a smaller gauge wire?
Basically I am making some speaker wires, and I have a bunch of 24 gauge wire around. I was wondering if 3 strands of 24 gauge might be equal to like 18 gauge....or if I could actually know what exact gauge it would be equal too?
Thanks
Tony_Montana
06-21-2005, 09:19 PM
Here is Gauge AWG Calculator....
http://home.hiwaay.net/~rgs/awgcalculator.html
JohnMichael
06-22-2005, 06:40 AM
Here is Gauge AWG Calculator....
http://home.hiwaay.net/~rgs/awgcalculator.html
Thank you. This will be handy for many of us.
markw
06-22-2005, 02:46 PM
When you add another wire of the same gauge, the combined gauge is 3 less than it was. i.e two 24 gauge wires = 21 gauge, three is 18, four would be 16, etc...
IOW, your math was right on. ;)
hermanv
06-22-2005, 05:23 PM
When you add another wire of the same gauge, the combined gauge is 3 less than it was. i.e two 24 gauge wires = 21 gauge, three is 18, four would be 16, etc...
Right text, small error in math: 2 #23 would be 21 gauge (correct), four #23 would be 18 gauge and 8 #23would be 15 gauge
vr6ofpain
06-28-2005, 03:41 PM
Here is Gauge AWG Calculator....
http://home.hiwaay.net/~rgs/awgcalculator.html
Sweet, THANKS!
kfalls
08-03-2005, 10:31 AM
What is the equation for the calculation?
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