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[AMPS] Re: Enameled wire size...

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Subject: [AMPS] Re: Enameled wire size...
From: gdaught6@leland.Stanford.EDU (George T. Daughters)
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 13:42:47 +0008

So it was written...

> ckeck my math but .
> 
> 1 mm =  1/254 inch  = 0.0039370 inch

WRONG!  WRONG!WRONG!WRONG! 1 mm = 1/25.4 inch =  0.03937 inches

There are 25.4 mm per inch!  I always figure "40mils (milli-inches) 
per mm."

> >From ref data for radio engineers for enam wire => #39 AWG"

So 0.040" would be way bigger than #39!

73,
George T. Daughters, K6GT

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