People often use these electrical terms interchangeably, but there’s a difference: A cable assembles two or more wires in a single jacket. Wires are the individual insulated or bare conductors inside ...

Many DIY enthusiasts have to contend with electrical wiring eventually in some capacity. The descent into this rabbit hole often begins with the fundamental question: What exactly is a wire gauge, and ...

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I'm looking for a neat, compact way to go from a single large-gauge wire to a pair or quartet of smaller gauge wires. All the ones I can find are 4 AWG in, with multiple 8 AWG out. I'm looking more ...

I WISH to direct attention to the performance of Minalpha wire as supplied by Johnson Matthey when used as the filament in an electrical resistance wire strain-gauge, and also to indicate the effect ...