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Posted by on April 19, 2008, 4:26 pm
>StarMan wrote:
>> Does anyone know of a chart with a COMPREHENSIVE listing of the combinations
>> of wire sizes that can go in each color of wire nut?
http://www.idealindustries.com/media/pdfs/products/ideal_ul_listed_combinations.pdf
>> I see that there are some capacities listed on the box when you buy a
>> certain color but I'd like something I could have on the computer which
>> gives as many combinations as possible and I could easily look up what I
>> need.
>
>Maybe you've found your niche in life to create such an animal --
>
>I would presume if you looked at the web sites of the various
>manufacturers you would find the same information in forms from which
>you could relatively easily construct such a table.
If we knew how to automatically and efficiently pack unequal circles into
a larger circle (with a "maximal hole degree algorithm"?), we might be able
to figure out how many 22 ga wires we could fit into an orange wire nut
with a minimum capacity of 1 18 ga + 1 20 ga wire and a maximum capacity of
4 16 ga + 1 20 ga wires.
Wikipedia says an AWG N gauge wire has a 0.005x92^((36-N)/39) inch diameter.
Nick
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