Wire gauges

[dave_gerecke]

Caio Basstard, You are quite welcome for the link. I found that a while ago and use it at work. I agree that it's very helpful. The main website has a lot of other useful info about electronics, computer hardware and even a section about old video game systems.

Pace,

Dave

 

[eyoung]

Johnathan,

Where you use the wire determines the kind (stranded or solid)
of wire. DC or AC , I do not claim to be an expert, so someone correct me if i get this wrong. There is something called skin effect,
It is why speaker cable is many stranded as opposed to large solid core . I have a Hi -Fi side and a Lo-Fi side. My Hi-Fi side is all
transistor, but my lo-fi side is mostly tube(guitar amp) so i work with old guitar amps with B+ voltage from 350-600VDC and my hi-fi amps at 35-70VDC. My favorite guitar amp is a Groove Tube Studio PreAmp(has an output section with either 2 6V6 or EL34)
with a bunch of 7025 front end tubes and some solid state for the recording out speaker emulator. so I guess I am as confused as you are. From what I can tell from digging through a bunch of amps is solid conductor wire is used mainly in inductors, Transformers and high amperage busses. If you want to look critically at most amplifiers copper trace on a circuitboard could be considered solid conductor. Lots to think about.

So stop thinking and start building and use different wire in different places and see how it sounds..

Regards, Elwood