American wire gauge: Difference between revisions

In Europe, wire size is expressed as the number of strands and cross sectional area in mm². For example. 7/0.2 means 7 strands of wire each 0.2mm diameter. In America the AWG numbering scheme is applied not only to individual strands but also to equivalent size bunches of smaller strands. For example. 24 AWG could be made of 1 strand of 24 AWG wire (1/24) or 7 strands of 32 AWG wire (7/32). Standard metric wire sizes do not correspond exactly to American wire sizes. The table below provides approximations of the closest equivalents for the wires most commonly found in the audio industry.<ref name="canford">[http://www.canford.co.uk/technicalTechnical/pdfsArticle/enMetricAWGWireSizeEquivalents Metric/metricawgwiresizeequivalents.pdf AWG/Metric wire size equivalents]</ref>