Comment: Electricity for Camping
Submitted: Sunday, Apr 21, 2013 at 17:05
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Pelikan
John,
I think you have hit the nail on the head. My two reels of cable must be mislabelled. I got the micrometer out and measured the diameter outside the insulation and found it to be 4mm. I then measured the conductor and found it to be a fraction over 2.4mm. The labels clearly state that the cable is Marine 6mm and then in brackets 4.59 square mm. This has led me to believe that 6mm cable was very inadequate when, if it is truly 6mm it may be better than 6 b&s (AWG) which has a nominal conductor diameter of 4.11 according to the tables I have.
Cheers, Peter