Rich Webb 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 ?

Mostly inertia, of course. On the other hand, the AWG scale is right
simple to use to swag the nominal wire resistance, given that it's a log
scale and starting with AWG 10 = 1 ohm/1000 feet (yeah, "feet" but ...).

Oh dear ! Is that how it was specified ? At what temperature btw ?

Graham

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