I've been asked to 'light-up' aircraft models, such as,
>
>
8 pounds breaking strength is about about #26 regular soft copper, #28 hard-drawn copper, #30 copperclad steel. Any of them can easily handle half an amp. That's extrapolating from the wire tables in an old copy of "Reference Data for Radio Engineers", a very handy book.
formatting link
>
>It is suspended from a rope.
>I need to use very fine 120V wire (like magnetic wire),
>the model uses 8# test monofilament right now and weighs
>1/2 # , but a strong wind requires that 8# test.
>Is there a table that gives wire gauge & tensile strength?
>The current will likely be a max of 1/2 amp.
>Ken
I'd suspect that #30 piano wire, 10 mil diameter, would be fine at half an amp too.
John