"xray" wrote in message
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| On 15 Oct 2005 05:20:55 GMT, (DoN. Nichols) wrote:
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| In the
| smaller sizes, #16 (yellow) will also handle #14, and #10 (blue) will
| also handle #12. (And the next smaller size, red, is rated for #22-#16.
| The range seems to get smaller as the wire gets bigger.
|
| I think you are talking about the color codes on the terminals? I was
| just looking in my junk box tonight for some terminals to use on 12 Ga
| wire. Yellow seemed to be the answer, but I only found a couple --
| plenty of red and blue. Oh, well.
|
| So I think maybe you got the gages and the colors confused -- or maybe
| there is something else going on that I don't know about. If the codes
| on my wimpy cheap cripmer are correct, red is 22-18, blue 16-14 and
| yellow 12-10.

The color code repeats itself when you get bigger. I don't think it's
quite so easy to mistake a 4 gauge terminal with a 16 gauge terminal (if
blue is #4, I don't recall exactly)