Re: OT :cable amp ratings - answers to wrong questions

[Victor Tikhonov <vtikhono@lsil.com>]

"Crabb, David" wrote:
> 
> This question I have always wondered.
> 
> Why do they decrease the size of the load permitted the higher the number
> goes?

For the same reason as other units that is counterintuitive and
backwards in the US -

- The sand paper grit system (larger number - smaller grain size)
- Wire size - larger number - smaller diameter (gets even worse - 
it goes through a minimum and gors up again: 4, 2, 1, 1/0, 2/0, 4/0, ... 
- I think drill bits numbering (larger number - smaller bit diameter)

> I would think it would be simple to say.. the larger number.. the more it
> can handle./
> 
> I mean.. following this example.
> 
...

It would. It would be simple if everyone would use metric system also.
Wire gauging would be very simple there - just crossection diameter.

Don't worry, it's not going to happen soon, makes too much sense.
Poor rest of the world suffers in inconvenience of not having
foots, pounds, inches and other ingenious stuff adopted to humans...

(Of course I'm being sarcastic. Don't get me started on this one).

Victor