Since this over milked subject won't die a natural death, I finally had to
throw some gasoline on the fire.
---So:---
(1) "Also note that the amount of electricity that can flow....."
Electricity having two attributes i.e.; Voltage and Current I shall assume
you're referring to Current in this context?

(2) "with the most basic factor controlling resistance is the size of the
wire." I shall agree if we ignore the type of material the wire is made of
such as lead, copper, silver, gold, tungsten, aluminum, etc-ad-inifinitum.
Just ask the toaster manufacturers !

(3) Are we now going to add surface current flow to our consideration of
wire sizes to power our tools? And do we ignore the mechanical strength
solder adds to a joint? Further, very few, in fact none of my stationary
power tools run on DC, so I shall conclude that is "safe" to delete surface
current comparisons of AC vs DC from this highly over technical evaluation
of what started out as a simple.... Yes/No question?

But at least the Engineering theorists sure had fun with it didn't they?
Not a lot of practicality here for application in the home shop , but a lot
of smoke got blown and a lot of chest got beaten on!

Don Dando


"Tim Douglass" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 04:30:41 -0600, "Henry St.Pierre"
wrote:

Also note that the amount of electricity that can flow through a system
is controlled by the amount of resistance on the circuit, with the most
basic factor controlling resistance being the size of the wire. If we
shrink the wire two things happen; first, less power gets through, and
second, the wire heats up at that point.

You wrote this? This is really a 'dumbed down' start. I stopped reading
after the above. I'm sure you are experienced with electricity and
understand home wiring very well, but your explanation of it needs work.
No offense meant.
Hank

I have no idea what I was trying to say there. I think I just mashed a
couple thoughts together. Like I said, this was done quickly.
Actually, the basic point there has to be something about smaller wire
getting hotter for a given load, which would relate to the small size
of the connector in the stab-in connection, which is what gets hot
under load. As a matter of fact, the use of stab-in connectors is
either banned or strongly discouraged in many areas now.

Re-reading that article there are a couple places I need to clean up.
--
"We need to make a sacrifice to the gods, find me a young virgin... oh,
and bring something to kill"

Tim Douglass

http://www.DouglassClan.com