| hebman |
Mon Jan 03, 2011 9:41 pm |
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What gauge wire ran to what ? Say on a 1953 bug
Example turn siginal switch to semaphores. What guage wire?
I need to know the whole car.
who ever comes up with the answer many thanks |
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| Jacks |
Mon Jan 03, 2011 9:52 pm |
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| Is this a contest? |
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| eurodub |
Mon Jan 03, 2011 11:20 pm |
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| http://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/info/wiring/bug_todec53.jpg ? |
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| hebman |
Tue Jan 04, 2011 12:02 am |
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| Wiring digram I know. Gauge size I don't. |
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| usariemen |
Tue Jan 04, 2011 2:04 am |
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Will this help you? Its split.
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| hebman |
Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:01 am |
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| How do I take the Cross Section sq. mm ---- to what gauge wire ?? |
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| johan_l |
Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:50 am |
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| I'd say that is how they are ordered, at least that was how they are sorted in our workshop at work... |
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| hazetguy |
Tue Jan 04, 2011 7:08 am |
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hebman wrote: How do I take the Cross Section sq. mm ---- to what gauge wire ??
from the site's Technical section: http://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/info/wireconversion.php
or you could use Google to find numerous conversion tables. |
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| johan_l |
Tue Jan 04, 2011 8:50 am |
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| ah, ok, in "american/english" units... :wink: I have never understood you keep using those hard to handle units, metrical system is so much easier as soon as you start making calculations... :D |
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| usariemen |
Tue Jan 04, 2011 11:11 am |
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hebman wrote: How do I take the Cross Section sq. mm ---- to what gauge wire ??
Hello
Well, sq mm means square millimeters.
If you cut the wire sharp and look at the cuttet surface, thats the flat face,
given in square millimeters. It might be in the states in square inch for wires? So the thickness of the wires is given by their square millimeters surface when cuttet. Does that explain it to you?
Carsten |
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| johnshenry |
Tue Jan 04, 2011 12:25 pm |
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There are no direct "equivalents for metric spec to AWG gauges.
The poorly formatted table below will show you the basic, nearest value conversions. Not that for some metrics, (like 2.5 mm^2) there is no direct AWG equivalent. If you are replacing wiring in this case you should "round up" to the nearest AWG value (12Ga in this case).
Gauge......Area
AWG.........mm^2
30...........0.05
28...........0.08
26...........0.14
24...........0.25
22...........0.34
21...........0.38
20...........0.5
18...........0.75
16...........1
__...........1.5
14...........2
__...........2.5
12...........3
__...........4
10...........5
__...........6
8.............8
__.........10
6...........16
4...........25
3...........35
2...........50
1...........56 |
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| ToolBox |
Tue Jan 04, 2011 1:45 pm |
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johnshenry wrote: There are no direct "equivalents for metric spec to AWG gauges.
The poorly formatted table below will show you the basic, nearest value conversions. Not that for some metrics, (like 2.5 mm^2) there is no direct AWG equivalent. If you are replacing wiring in this case you should "round up" to the nearest AWG value (12Ga in this case).
For the uninitiated with AWG the larger the number the smaller the wire, ie 8ga is larger than 12ga. |
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