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Default Electrical wiring: the "last inch"

On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:58:38 GMT, (Doug Miller)
wrote:

In article , JIMMIE wrote:

It does not affect the current that the wire COULD carry or the
AMPacity. A long cable, compared to a short cable, will the current
in the total circuit because it adds resistance to the total circuit.


Adding resistance to a circuit changes voltage, not current.


This is true if the circuit is powered by a constant-current source,
something unusual.

There may be some confusion here between actual current and current
CAPACITY (of a conductor).