Wire temp question
so i have never seen it mentioned, but i was playing around with some voltage drop calculators and i noticed they never mention what the temp the wire will run at???? example below, apparently a ...
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2oldman wrote:
If your wire is heating up you need bigger wire.
Generally speaking this is excellent advice. I will mention ONE exception below.
If the wire feels warm to the touch. use bigger wire.
The exception:
I layed out about 100 feet of mostly 8GA wire to power a couple of ham radio stations for a Field Day operation 100 watts max means about 10 amps max draw on the line. Now 8ga can take like 50 amps.
Well when I went to roll up this wire I had to wear gloves the wire jacket was so hot.. That is till I got into the area where the wire was SHADED and then it was COLD to the touch.. The heat was from the SUN. not the current.
