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I am getting confused with regard to chosing cable for the bus in a dcc
model railway. Single strands of 1mm lighting cable with insulation removed are what is used I understand. I have looked on the RS site and they do tinned solid copper wire which is used for rewirable fuse links which would also be ok for the bus so according to my calculation 29swg is the nearest to 1mm. Now apart from RS qoting the cable in AWG which would mean that I would have to go to 25awg if my conversion is correct, I am confused because the spec shows 29 swg having an operating current (at 35C) of 1 amp or a fusewire rating of 10 amps. What does that mean exactly? I had assumed that 1mm cable is good for 6amps so why is 29swg have an operating current of 1 amp or am I failing to understand something here. Kevin |
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