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RS485 cable
Hello,
I need to connect some units with RS485 and in the user guide I have found the following text regarding the cable to use: "Wire gauge size is thicker than AWG #22 (0.33 mm2)." I wonder what "AWG" is, is this a kind of a cable or specification? Best Regards E |
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AWG-American Wire Gauge.
The lower the number the heavier the wire, and the more current it can handle without over heating. In the US, #14 AWG carries 15 AMPS. JPS "Erik Janssen" wrote in message ... Hello, I need to connect some units with RS485 and in the user guide I have found the following text regarding the cable to use: "Wire gauge size is thicker than AWG #22 (0.33 mm2)." I wonder what "AWG" is, is this a kind of a cable or specification? Best Regards E |
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"Erik Janssen" wrote in message ... Hello, I need to connect some units with RS485 and in the user guide I have found the following text regarding the cable to use: "Wire gauge size is thicker than AWG #22 (0.33 mm2)." I wonder what "AWG" is, is this a kind of a cable or specification? Best Regards E Cable spec, just Google AWG, or try this:- http://www.tnt-audio.com/clinica/awg_e.html Mike. |
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Erik Janssen wrote:
Hello, I need to connect some units with RS485 and in the user guide I have found the following text regarding the cable to use: "Wire gauge size is thicker than AWG #22 (0.33 mm2)." I wonder what "AWG" is, is this a kind of a cable or specification? Best Regards E AWG = American Wire Gauge. It is the cross sectional area of the wire. I.E. AWG 22 means a .33 mm2 wire. Wire size decreases with increasing number. http://www.rbeelectronics.com/wtable.htm It sounds 'backwards' but it derives from how wire was made. Wire was drawn through a die containing a hole of the appropriate diameter but one could reduce the wire size by only so much with each draw. So the gauge 'number' roughly translated to how many die drawing steps it took to reduce the original rod ('0' gauge) to the resultant wire size (in theory, 22 gauge took 22 die reductions to get there). Those original 'gauges' were not uniform and they've since been standardized (mid 1800s) and no longer directly relate to the actual making but, rather, to a geometric progression of the wire size itself: each next wire diameter is 0.890522 the previous (in AWG). |
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"Erik Janssen" wrote in message
... | I wonder what "AWG" is, is this a kind of a cable or specification? Well, AWG stands for "American Wire Guage" ... basically a standard sizing spec... |
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