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17.4) American Wire Gauge (AWG) table for annealed copper wire
(Similar tables exist for other types of wire, e.g., aluminum.)
(Table provided by: Peter Boniewicz (peterbon@mail.atr.bydgoszcz.pl)).
Wire Table for AWG 0000 to 40, with diam in mils, circular mils,
square microinches, ohms per foot, ft per lb, etc.
AWG Dia in Circ. Square Ohm per lbs per Feet/ Feet/ Ohms/
gauge mils Mils MicroIn 1000 ft 1000 ft Pound Ohm Pound
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0000 460.0 211600 166200 0.04901 640.5 1.561 20400 0.00007652
000 409.6 167800 131800 0.06180 507.9 1.968 16180 0.0001217
00 364.8 133100 104500 0.07793 402.8 2.482 12830 0.0001935
0 324.9 105500 82890 0.09827 319.5 3.130 10180 0.0003076
1 289.3 83690 65730 0.1239 253.3 3.947 8070 0.0004891
2 257.6 66370 52130 0.1563 200.9 4.977 6400 0.0007778
3 229.4 52640 41340 0.1970 159.3 6.276 5075 0.001237
4 204.3 41740 32780 0.2485 126.4 7.914 4025 0.001966
5 181.9 33100 26000 0.3133 100.2 9.980 3192 0.003127
6 162.0 26250 20620 0.3951 79.46 12.58 2531 0.004972
7 144.3 20820 16350 0.4982 63.02 15.87 2007 0.007905
8 128.5 16510 12970 0.6282 49.98 20.01 1592 0.01257
9 114.4 13090 10280 0.7921 39.63 25.23 1262 0.01999
10 101.9 10380 8155 0.9989 31.43 31.82 1001 0.03178
11 90.74 8234 6467 1.260 24.92 40.12 794 0.05053
12 80.81 6530 5129 1.588 19.77 50.59 629.6 0.08035
13 71.96 5178 4067 2.003 15.68 63.80 499.3 0.1278
14 64.08 4107 3225 2.525 12.43 80.44 396.0 0.2032
15 57.07 3257 2558 3.184 9.858 101.4 314.0 0.3230
16 50.82 2583 2028 4.016 7.818 127.9 249.0 0.5136
17 45.26 2048 1609 5.064 6.200 161.3 197.5 0.8167
18 40.30 1624 1276 6.385 4.917 203.4 156.6 1.299
19 35.89 1288 1012 8.051 3.899 256.5 124.2 2.065
20 31.96 1022 802.3 10.15 3.092 323.4 98.50 3.283
21 28.46 810.1 636.3 12.80 2.452 407.8 78.11 5.221
22 25.35 642.4 504.6 16.14 1.945 514.2 61.95 8.301
23 22.57 509.5 400.2 20.36 1.542 648.4 49.13 13.20
24 20.10 404.0 317.3 25.67 1.223 817.7 38.96 20.99
25 17.90 320.4 251.7 32.37 0.9699 1031.0 30.90 33.37
26 15.94 254.1 199.6 40.81 0.7692 1300 24.50 53.06
27 14.20 201.5 158.3 51.47 0.6100 1639 19.43 84.37
28 12.64 159.8 125.5 64.90 0.4837 2067 15.41 134.2
29 11.26 126.7 99.53 81.83 0.3836 2607 12.22 213.3
30 10.03 100.5 78.94 103.2 0.3042 3287 9.691 339.2
31 8.928 79.70 62.60 130.1 0.2413 4145 7.685 539.3
32 7.950 63.21 49.64 164.1 0.1913 5227 6.095 857.6
33 7.080 50.13 39.37 206.9 0.1517 6591 4.833 1364
34 6.305 39.75 31.22 260.9 0.1203 8310 3.833 2168
35 5.615 31.52 24.76 329.0 0.09542 10480 3.040 3448
36 5.000 25.00 19.64 414.8 0.07568 13210 2.411 5482
37 4.453 19.83 15.57 523.1 0.06001 16660 1.912 8717
38 3.965 15.72 12.35 659.6 0.04759 21010 1.516 13860
39 3.531 12.47 9.793 831.8 0.03774 26500 1.202 22040
40 3.145 9.888 7.766 1049.0 0.02993 33410 0.9534 35040
41 2.808 7.860 6.175 1319 0.02379 42020 0.758 55440
42 2.500 6.235 4.896 1663 0.01887 53000 0.601 88160
43 2.226 4.944 3.883 2098 0.01497 66820 0.476 140160
44 1.982 3.903 3.087 2638 0.01189 84040 0.379 221760
45 1.766 3.117 2.448 3326 0.00943 106000 0.300 352640
46 1.572 2.472 1.841 4196 0.00748 133640 0.238 560640
Ohms per 1000 ft, ft per Ohm, Ohms per lb, all taken at 20 degC (68 degF).
Note: Values for AWG #41 to #46 extrapolated from AWG #35 to #40 based on wire
gauge formula.
David Beierl - Providence, RI
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