Electronics Reference: Wire Chart
AWG D.C. OHMS WIRE DIA APPROX. TURNS PER FEET PER SIZE PER 1000 FT INCHES INCH, SOLID ENAMEL POUND COVERED 1 .1264 .2893 X 3.947 2 .1593 .2576 X 4.977 3 .2009 .2294 X 6.276 4 .2533 .2043 X 7.914 5 .3195 .1819 X 9.980 6 .4028 .1620 X 12.58 7 .5080 .1443 X 15.87 8 .6405 .1286 7.6 20.01 9 .8077 .1144 8.6 25.23 10 1.018 .1019 9.6 31.82 11 1.284 .0907 10.7 40.12 12 1.619 .0808 12.0 50.59 13 2.042 .0720 13.5 63.80 14 2.524 .0641 15.0 80.44 15 3.181 .0571 16.8 101.40 16 4.018 .0508 18.9 127.90 17 5.054 .0453 21.2 161.3 18 6.386 .0403 23.6 203.4 19 8.046 .0359 26.4 256.5 20 10.13 .0320 29.4 323.4 21 12.77 .0285 33.1 407.8 22 16.20 .0253 37.0 514.2 23 20.30 .0226 41.3 648.4 24 25.67 .0201 46.3 817.7 25 32.37 .0179 51.7 1031 26 41.02 .0159 58.0 1300 27 51.44 .0142 64.9 1639 28 65.31 .0126 72.7 2067 29 81.21 .0113 81.6 2607 30 103.7 .0100 90.5 3287 31 130.9 .0089 101 4145 32 162.0 .0080 113 5227 33 205.7 .0071 127 6591 34 261.3 .0063 143 8310 35 330.7 .0056 158 10480 36 414.8 .0050 175 13210 37 512.1 .0045 198 16660 38 648.2 .0040 224 21010 39 846.6 .0036 248 26500 40 1079 .0031 282 33410 41 1323 .0028 42 1659 .0025 43 2143 .0022 44 2593 .0020 45 3348 .00176 46 4207 .00157 47 5291 .00140
Magnet wire coatings from Phelps-Dodge:
All data pertain to 18 AWG magnet wire. Build = thickness of coating
COATING MATERIAL BUILD DC BREAKDOWN ---------- ----------------- ----- ------------ Thermaleze-T (TZT) polyester-imide 2.8mils 11kV Armored Polythemaleze 3.05mils 11kV (APTZ) modified polyester and modified polyamide-imide Imideze (ML) Aromatic polyimide 2.9mils 12kV Formvar modified polyviynyl 3.0mils 10kV formal Sodereze modified polyurethane 2.9mils 8.5kV Nyleze Polyurethane 2.9mils 8.5kV and polyamide
Dielectric constant/DF numbers for these materials:
Material Dielectric Const. / DF x 10^-3 1kHz 100kHz 1Mhz Rating TZT .......... 3.7/5.6 3.56/16.4 3.58/21.5 3rd APTZ ......... 3.86/6.9 3.69/22.1 3.67/26.6 5th ML ........... 3.34/0.9 3.3/5.7 3.36/9.8 2nd to teflon Formvar* ..... 3.6/11.2 3.41/25.2 3.37/28.4 5th Soldereze .... 3.85/11.3 3.66/20.7 3.66/23.1 4th Nyleze ....... 4.07/19.7 3.78/27.1 3.75/27.2 6th
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