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Below we offer a table of wire gauge data. What's this got to do with microwaves? If you gotta ask, you must be one of those antenna nerds... last time we
checked, wire is still needed to bring power to all those "wireless" prototypes!

The diameter data we reference a table we found on Coilcraft's web site (http://www.coilcraft.com) (thanks, Dudes!) We calculated the ohms/meter and
ohms/foot based on the conductivity of pure copper (the actual resistance will be slightly more).

Here's some AWG trivia (http://vantageaudio.com/info/awg.htm): the AWG scale was once called the Brown and Sharpe (B&S) wire gauge. The AWG system is
a geometrical progression where each larger size has 26% more area than the previous size.

The maximum DC current we found on tpub.com, so if it's wrong don't blame us! The values are for insulated wire, you can achieve higher current levels if you
use bare wire, just don't kill yourself.

The table is for unstranded wire. We'll add a table on stranded wire later.

AWG Diameter (mils) Diameter (mm) Area (mils^2) Area (mm^2) Ohms/meter Ohms/foot Maximum DC current* (A)

50 1.00 0.025 0.785 0.00049 34.08208 10.38822

49 1.10 0.028 0.950 0.00062 27.17002 8.28142

48 1.24 0.031 1.208 0.00075 22.16576 6.75612

47 1.40 0.036 1.539 0.00102 16.43619 5.00975

46 1.57 0.040 1.936 0.00126 13.31331 4.05790

45 1.76 0.045 2.433 0.00159 10.51916 3.20624

44 2.00 0.051 3.142 0.00204 8.18966 2.49621

43 2.20 0.056 3.801 0.00246 6.79251 2.07036

42 2.50 0.064 4.909 0.00322 5.20051 1.58512

41 2.80 0.071 6.158 0.00396 4.22561 1.28797

40 3.10 0.079 7.548 0.00490 3.41312 1.04032

39 3.50 0.089 9.621 0.00622 2.68922 0.81967

38 4.00 0.102 12.57 0.00817 2.04741 0.62405

37 4.50 0.114 15.90 0.01021 1.63907 0.49959

36 5.00 0.127 19.63 0.01267 1.32068 0.40254

35 5.60 0.142 24.63 0.01584 1.05640 0.32199

34 6.30 0.160 31.17 0.02011 0.83208 0.25362

33 7.10 0.180 39.59 0.02545 0.65745 0.20039

32 8.00 0.203 50.27 0.03237 0.51691 0.15755 0.32

31 8.90 0.226 62.21 0.04011 0.41705 0.12712

30 10.00 0.254 78.54 0.05067 0.33017 0.10064 0.52

29 11.30 0.287 100.3 0.06469 0.25861 0.07882

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28 12.60 0.320 124.7 0.08042 0.20802 0.06340 0.83

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27 14.20 0.361 158.4 0.10235 0.16345 0.04982

26 15.90 0.404 198.6 0.12819 0.13051 0.03978 1.3

25 17.90 0.455 251.6 0.16260 0.10289 0.03136

24 20.10 0.511 317.3 0.20508 0.08158 0.02486 2.1

23 22.60 0.574 401.1 0.25877 0.06465 0.01971

22 25.30 0.643 502.7 0.32472 0.05152 0.01570 5

21 28.50 0.724 637.9 0.41169 0.04064 0.01239

20 32.00 0.813 804.2 0.51912 0.03223 0.00982 7.5

19 35.90 0.912 1012.2 0.65325 0.02561 0.00781

18 40.30 1.020 1275.6 0.81713 0.02047 0.00624 10

17 45.30 1.150 1611.7 1.03869 0.01611 0.00491

16 50.80 1.290 2026.8 1.30698 0.01280 0.00390 13

15 57.10 1.450 2560.7 1.65130 0.01013 0.00309

14 64.10 1.630 3227.1 2.08672 0.00802 0.00244 17

13 72.00 1.830 4071.5 2.63022 0.00636 0.00194

12 80.80 2.050 5127.6 3.30064 0.00507 0.00154 23

11 90.70 2.300 6461.1 4.15476 0.00403 0.00123

10 101.90 2.600 8155.3 5.30929 0.00315 0.00096 33

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