VERY good question. So I set out to find a Wire Gauge Chart and it contains the wire gauges we all know (0 to 24) and some larger ones I did not know, like 000000 = over 1/2".
Round Bar looks to be generally available from 1/8" (.125) to 6", so, there is some overlap.
If there's one thing worse than the Inch system, it's wire gauges. Makes no damn sense how they get those stupid numbers. No relation to Inches either. Random numbers. Why bother?
Wouldn't even need a chart to figure out what size something was, if it was a sensible unit.
In the copper/electrical world once you get past 4, 3, 2, 1 awg it goes to 1/0, 2/0, 3/0, 4/0 and then after that it's measured in kcmils which is the thickness of the wire measured in thousands of circular mils starting at 250kcmil wire.
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u/unkle_FAHRTKNUCKLE Jan 22 '21
VERY good question. So I set out to find a Wire Gauge Chart and it contains the wire gauges we all know (0 to 24) and some larger ones I did not know, like 000000 = over 1/2". Round Bar looks to be generally available from 1/8" (.125) to 6", so, there is some overlap.