FollowupID: 419169 Submitted:
Saturday, Apr 01, 2006 at 19:06
Member - Mike DID posted:
There are only two wire gauges used in
Australia - American and British
AWG- started off as Brown and Sharpe (B&S) and then changed to AWG when it became the official American Standard.
"B&S=Battery and Starter" is something that Bias
Boating seem to have invented. 30B&S (0.25mm) wire is hardly useful for starting !
The Europeans were smart enough to describe wire size using Square MM - e.g. House Power wiring is 2.5 sq mm and is rtaed at 15 amps.
Here are two examples for local 4 AWG cables
Altronics - 110 amps @ 110deg 10.2mm Total OD 18.8 sq mm
Jaycar - 110 amps 10mm Total OD
Mike
