jjh wrote:

Eeyore m wrote:
DaveC wrote:
The coil in an industrial electromagnetic clutch (connecting the flywheel to
the drive mechanism) has gone open-circuit. So it is being rewound by a motor
rewind shop.

I was just informed that the original wire was about 12 ga. (maybe slightly
larger; original was metric) but it was rewound using 10 ga.

Why do Americans persist in using stupid AWG that no-one else in the
world uses except to entertain you ?

Have you never heard of mm^2 ?

Graham

Now that is a helpful comment.

It is indeed. AWG does not specify an explicit conductor CSA.


Maybe because we are??? Why are there
three distinct classes of units in physics? (eventhough SI units are
somewhat universal).

TOTALLY universal except for the USA, Liberia and Burma / Myanmar, both somewhat
backward countries you have chosen to retain compatability with. Some might say the
USA is rather backward too. The high level of belief in religion is one pointer to
that.


Cross sectional area and diameter are basic parameters that engineers understand
and taught to convert between any system of units.

Conversion is a waste of time and a source of errors. There is only ONE system of
units I need for engineering.


Difference between an engineer and an hack? I like
blue, you may like purple. Our rocket went to the moon, you don't
have one...Sheese, don't ya have enough nits to pick?

And what did you get from going to the Moon ?

Furthermore we have ESA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Space_Agency
and Galileo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo...ite_navigation)

It knocks spots off GPS.

Graham

--
due to the hugely increased level of spam please make the obvious adjustment to my
email address