dpb wrote:
StarMan wrote:
Does anyone know of a chart with a COMPREHENSIVE listing of the combinations
of wire sizes that can go in each color of wire nut?

http://www.idealindustries.com/media...mbinations.pdf
I see that there are some capacities listed on the box when you buy a
certain color but I'd like something I could have on the computer which
gives as many combinations as possible and I could easily look up what I
need.

Maybe you've found your niche in life to create such an animal --

I would presume if you looked at the web sites of the various
manufacturers you would find the same information in forms from which
you could relatively easily construct such a table.

If we knew how to automatically and efficiently pack unequal circles into
a larger circle (with a "maximal hole degree algorithm"?), we might be able
to figure out how many 22 ga wires we could fit into an orange wire nut
with a minimum capacity of 1 18 ga + 1 20 ga wire and a maximum capacity of
4 16 ga + 1 20 ga wires.

Wikipedia says an AWG N gauge wire has a 0.005x92^((36-N)/39) inch diameter.

Nick