On Sunday, 23 April 2017 09:08:52 UTC+1, wrote:
On Sunday, 23 April 2017 07:59:53 UTC+1, Jeff Layman wrote:
With even lower power needed for lighting in these days of LEDs (and
CFLs), isn't rather a lot of metal being wasted unnecessarily in the
wire in lighting circuits?

It is.

Below 1mm conductors are physically less robust.

Bell wire is fine, in the robustness sense, for undisturbed wiring. And one can always go stranded.


NT