lord loh.

could any one tell me a formula to convert wire thickness in SWG into meters ? I have a 30 SWG thick wire and would like to know it's thickness in metres for certain calculations...

Thanks in advance...

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Bharath Bhushan Lohray.
M.Sc. Electronics.

Dean Huster

If SWG is anything like AWG here in the U.S., you can't use the actual gauge number in a calculation for it is nothing more than a "name" rather than a calculated number. You might as well call each of the succeeding sizes of wire "Ralph", "Henry", "Joe", "Bill", "Mike", etc. vs. #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, etc. Ultimately, you're slaved to a look-up table.

Now, in the U.S., once you're larger than #0000, the gauges revert to the cmil size of the wire, and with that information, you'd have a chance at determining "thickness" or more properly, diameter.

Dean

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Dean Huster, Electronics Curmudgeon
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bryan1

Hiya Loh,
Below is a table of wire data I pulled out a dick smith catalouge it should have everything you need.

Hope it helps

Cheers Bryan1

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