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    Calculating gauge of wire

    Ok. I've fitted 2 tone car horns in place of 1 tone horn on my Renault Kadjar. The factory horn is weak. I'm attaching a photo of a waterproof scotchlok crimper connector which will connect 2 factory wires to new wires to horn. The car horn runs via 10 amp fuse. My question is: does anybody...
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    What is maximum distance I can run 12 gauge wire to a shed?

    Hello, Need some advice. I have a 20amp breaker with 12g/2 underground feeder wire running to an outdoor GFIC outlet. 38 feet from breaker box to where it leaves the house and then 32 feet buried 24 inches deep (no conduit) to the 20A GFIC outlet. So from breaker box to outdoor outlet is a...
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    Gauge Requirements

    I have been looking around and used a calculator for this. I am looking to run 120v/100 AMP supply to a pole barn 175 feet and buried from the main breaker. What size and type of wire will I need? Thanks in advance.
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    Light Or Heavy Gauge PVC Conduit?

    Hi, Which do you guys use? I've bought the light stuff as it's going in a shed where there's not going to be any risk of mechanical impacts. It seems unnecessary to spend extra on the heavy stuff. Is the choice to use heavy gauge purely due to its greater mechanical protection and because...
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    Proper SOOW wire gauge

    I plan to upgrade my portable generator to a larger 40 amp max output unit. When I originally ran the cable to my electrical panel I used 8/3 NM-B W/G wire to allow for a future upgrade. My question is what gauge SOOW should I use for the 10 foot generator lead, 8/4 or 6/4? I'm a little...
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    Workshop Q light gauge 220v can a 3 phase 415v connection be made up?

    Hello again and Happy NY all. I have decided to take a small piece of family land and erect a house ( live for a few years) As part of this, i have to do a lot myself, joinery carpentry etc. I have access to a rural farm workshop to conduct all, its dry but the electrical connection is run...
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    Gauge Speaker Wires: Clueless

    Hi Sorry if I’m posting in the wrong forum I had a look on the search tool but couldn’t find a definitive answer to my query. A relative of mine has 4 speakers inbuilt into their ceiling (see pic) and 6 gauge speaker wires (see pic) coming out of a wall panel. None of us know exactly how to...
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    12 gauge wire UK usage

    I'm after a little advice I have a fair amount of 12 gauge hot neutral and ground cable. Is there any reason apart from the colours being different I can't use this in my upcoming extension? I believe from my basic research it will take 230volts and in the US they use it for 20 amp circuits, so...
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    Long cable to electric car - amps and gauge advice

    Hello all. Advice appreciated on running a 22m to 25m single gang extension cable from a domestic socket indoors, to an outdoor electric vehicle's own official 5m charging cable (which ends in a three pin plug). Nothing noteworthy about the wiring in the house whilst the charging circuit...
  10. gazdkw82

    plastic wire gauge - mm

    I seen somewhere not so long ago a plastic credit card size wire gauge. It had all different sized cut outs in it so you could offer up a conductor in order to correctly size it. cant find anything decent that's measured in mm. Its just to quickly size a conductor if in doubt
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    NEED the exact fuel data from fuel sender as it shows in the fuel gauge.

    Hi all, I am trying to show the amount of fuel present in the fuel tank in a mobile application. the method i was trying was getting the consecutive voltage from fuel sender and tried to show up as graph. but there is a huge variation then actuals at different situation like when the wipper...
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    Sensor Wire Gauge vs ECU

    Hi there, after endless searching of the mighty interwebs with no solid results I've found myself here with a question or two. If I were to replace the wiring for various ecu sensor inputs (such as the hot-wire mass air flow sensor for example) with thicker gauge wire, would the ECU still...
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    Iron cord gauge - too thin?

    Hi, first time poster here. I've had a relatives iron come my way that is in need of a replacement mains cord but I'm a little confused as to what gauge the replacement flex should be. It's stated on the bottom of the iron that it draws 2kW max, which just over 8.5 amps at 230V. According to...
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    Need help concerning Vacuum Gauge Calibration

    Help from someone preferably experienced in Vacuum Furnaces, more specifically Consarc. Now to the point, right now at work we have an issue with a Furnace, I've managed to work out (after hours of wasted time leak detecting) that what is happening is at the pumps there is an Electronic Vacuum...
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    Cable size gauge

    Judging cable size has always been a bit of a problem for me. I end up carrying around small pieces of various size cables for direct comparison to determine what size is installed - and doing this in front of customers can be quite embarrassing! I noticed on another thread someone mentioned...

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