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

["Roger Stockton" <rstockton@delta-q.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Victor Tikhonov [mailto:vtikhono@lsil.com] 
> Sent: May 31, 2002 4:48 PM
> To: ev@listproc.sjsu.edu
> Subject: Re: OT :cable amp ratings - answers to wrong questions

> - 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, ... 

Of course, 1/0, 2/0, 3/0, 4/0 is shorthand for 0, 00, 000, and 0000, so
while the shorthand makes it look worse, the reality isn't quite so bad.

Once you get into ~real~ cable, the sizes are more sensible, even
without metric, and there really is a reversal:

8, 4, 2, 1, 0, 00, 000, 0000, 250kcmil, 300kcmil, 350kcmil, 400kcmil,
etc.

in ascending order of physical size.

Cheers,

Roger.