AWG vs european wire size

[rickcham]

Can someone point me to where I can find a conversation chart to convert the european mm/sq wire to inch/square.
I need something that goes below 18 awg as I found in Uglys book.

Much appericated
Rick

 

[ron]

Re: AWG vs european wire size

The tables in chapter 9 of the NEC.

 

[c-h]

Re: AWG vs european wire size

I take it that you need to convert European sizes to something easier to understand for Americans?

To convert from mm2 to kcmil take mm2 times 1,974. For practical purposes you can ignore the 2% error and take mm2 times two to get kcmil.

If you write out the table it looks like this. I have used decimal comma instead of decimal point. European thing, you know

Sq.mm...kcmil

0,05....0,099
0,08....0,158
0,09....0,178
0,14....0,276
0,22....0,434
0,25....0,494
0,34....0,671
0,5.....0,987
0,75....1,48
1,0.....1,97
1,5.....2,96
2,5.....4,94
4,0.....7,90
6,0.....11,8
10......19,7
16......31,6
25......49,4
35......69,1
50......98,7
70......138
95......188
120.....237
150.....296
185.....365
240.....474
300.....592
400.....790
500.....987
630.....1244

[ October 29, 2003, 11:07 AM: Message edited by: c-h ]

 

[c-h]

Re: AWG vs european wire size

To convert AWG to mm2

AWG....mm2
30......0,05
28......0,08
26......0,128
24......0,205
22......0,325
20......0,519
18......0,826
16......1,31
14......2,08
12......3,31
10......5,26
8.......8,39
6.......13,3
4.......21,1
2.......33,6
1.......42,4
1/0.....53,5
2/0.....67,4
3/0.....85,0
4/0.....107

 

[rickcham]

Re: AWG vs european wire size

Thanks for the help with my request. I was able to figure out to 18 awg but we were dealing with 20 to 24 awg so thanks for the chart C-H.

Rick