{"id":29784,"date":"2023-10-11T18:15:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T22:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=29784"},"modified":"2023-10-11T18:15:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T22:15:46","slug":"american-wire-gauge-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=29784","title":{"rendered":"American wire gauge &#8211; Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_wire_gauge\">American wire gauge &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>why does increasing the number mean smaller diameter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Increasing gauge numbers denote decreasing wire diameters, which is similar to many other\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SI\">non-metric<\/a>\u00a0gauging systems such as British\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Standard_Wire_Gauge\">Standard Wire Gauge<\/a>\u00a0(SWG), but unlike\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IEC_60228\">IEC 60228<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metric_system\">metric<\/a>\u00a0wire-size standard used in most parts of the world. <strong><em>This gauge system originated in the number of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wire_drawing\">drawing operations<\/a>\u00a0used to produce a given gauge of wire. Very fine wire (for example, 30\u00a0gauge) required more passes through the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Draw_plate\">drawing dies<\/a>\u00a0than 0\u00a0gauge wire did<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>also check out the weird math used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: American wire gauge &#8211; Wikipedia why does increasing the number mean&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1145,68,140],"class_list":["post-29784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-electrical","tag-info","tag-paul","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29786,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29784\/revisions\/29786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}