I have a few hundred feet of five conductor stranded cable. I believe it was made by Belden but there is no markings along its length and I don't have the reel that it came on. It's nice flexible cable, so I decided to use some of it for hookup wire.
I stripped a short length and took a measurement of each of the seven strands with a calipers and they measured 9 thousands of an inch. I looked that up in the wire table in the reference manual, and it says it's a 31 AWG wire that's 79.2 circular mils. I multiplied this by 7 and got 554.4 circular mils total.
I looked this up in the wire table, but it's between 23 AWG, which is
511 circular mils, and 22 AWG which is 640 cm. I'm puzzled because I've done this procedure a number of times before and I've come fairly close to the exact AWG in every case. This is the first that I can remember where the value is that far off.Usually when you check the specs for this kind of cable, it is either 24 AWG or 22 AWG, and never 23 AWG. But it's obvious that the calculated total is way too small to be a 22 AWG and way too large to be a 24 AWG.
Any ideas? I think I'll try Belden's website and see if I can find some cables that have five conductors and see what they say. Thanks.
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