Re: wire AWG and safe current draw

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Original poster: "D.C. Cox by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <DR.RESONANCE-at-next-wave-dot-net>



If he is running a pole pig off this setup the pig will draw excessive
amounts of "peak" currents for short periods of time as it approaches
saturation even with a series inductance.  Smoother operation is possible
with series 0.5 Ohm clothes dryer heater elements but even with this the 8
AWG wire would be preferred.

If running just neons in parallel you might get away with the 10 AWG but you
would be pushing it a bit.  It would certainly break the elec. codes.

Dr. Resonance




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Subject: Re: wire AWG and safe current draw


> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
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> Hi, 10 AWG will safely carry 30 A.  Sure he could do it, but I don't know
how
> much the wire would heat up under a full 40 A load. It wouldn't be safe
(or up
> to code), and I certainly would not do it.
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> Jonathon Reinhart
> hot-streamer-dot-com/jonathon
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> > A Buddy of mine wanted to know if he could run a 240VAC 40A dual poled
> > breaker on 10 AWG wire instead of 8 AWG. Anyone actually done this one
> > before? Am I right in saying that this would cause a wall fire?
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> > Just checking.
> >
> > Tim.
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