Wire size table

Wire size table

This is a table combined of American Wire Gauge AWG (Chassis Wiring, single free hanging wire) table and the European standards for machine wiring at +40 oC, EN 60204-1.

AWG Diameter Cross section area Amperage value Max frequency for 100% skin depth
  12.36 mm 120 mm2 221 A  
0000 11.68 mm 107.16 mm2 380 A 125 Hz
  11.00 mm 95 mm2 192 A
000 10.40 mm 84.97 mm2  328 A 160 Hz
  9.44 mm 70 mm2 155 A
00 9.27 mm 67.40 mm2  283 A 200 Hz
0 8.25 mm 53.46 mm2  245 A 250 Hz
  7.98 mm 50 mm2 123 A
1 7.35 mm 42.39 mm2  211 A 325 Hz
  6.67 mm 35 mm2 114 A
2 6.54 mm 33.61 mm2  181 A 410 Hz
3 5.83 mm 26.65 mm2  158 A 500 Hz
  5.64 mm 25 mm2 88 A
4 5.19 mm 21.14 mm2  135 A 650 Hz
5 4.62 mm 16.76 mm2  118 A 810 Hz
  4.51 mm 16 mm2 70 A
6 4.11 mm 13.29 mm2  101 A 1100 Hz
7 3.67 mm 10.55 mm2  89 A 1300 Hz
  3.57 mm 10 mm2 52 A
8 3.26 mm 8.36 mm2  73 A 1650 Hz
9 2.91 mm 6.63 mm2  64 A 2050 Hz
  2.76 mm 6 mm2 37 A
10 2.59 mm 5.26 mm2  55 A 2600 Hz
11 2.30 mm 4.17 mm2  47 A 3200 Hz
  2.26 mm 4 mm2 30 A
12 2.05 mm 3.31 mm2 41 A 4150 Hz
13 1.83 mm 2.63 mm2 35 A 5300 Hz
  1.78 mm 2.50 mm2 22 A
14 1.63 mm 2.08 mm2 32 A 6700 Hz
15 1.45 mm 1.65 mm2 28 A 8250 Hz
  1.38 mm 1.5 mm2 16.1 A
16 1.29 mm 1.31 mm2 22 A 11 kHz
17 1.15 mm 1.04 mm2 19 A 13 kHz
  1.13 mm 1 mm2 11.5 A
18 1.02 mm 0.82 mm2 16 A 17 kHz
  0.98 mm 0.75 mm2 9.1 A
19 0.91 mm 0.65 mm2 14 A 21 kHz
20 0.81 mm 0.52 mm2  11 A 27 kHz
  0.80 mm 0.5 mm2 7.1 A
21 0.72 mm 0.41 mm2  9 A 33 kHz
22 0.65 mm 0.33 mm2  7 A 42 kHz
  0.62 mm 0.3 mm2 5 A
23 0.57 mm 0.26 mm2  4.7 A 53 kHz
24 0.51 mm 0.20 mm2 4 A 68 kHz
25 0.45 mm 0.16 mm2 2.7 A 85 kHz
26 0.40 mm 0.13 mm2 2.2 A 107 kHz
27 0.361 mm 0.102 mm2 1.7 A  130 kHz
28 0.321 mm 0.081 mm2  1.4 A 170 kHz
29 0.286 mm 0.0642 mm2  1.2 A 210 kHz
30 0.255 mm 0.0509 mm2  0.86 A 270 kHz
31 0.227 mm 0.0404 mm2  0.7 A 340 kHz
32 0.202 mm 0.0320 mm2  0.53 A 430 kHz
33 0.180 mm 0.0254 mm2  0.43 A 540 kHz
34 0.160 mm 0.0201 mm2  0.33 A 690 kHz
35 0.143 mm 0.0160 mm2 0.27 A 870 kHz
36 0.127 mm 0.0127 mm2  0.21 A 1100 kHz
37 0.113 mm 0.01 mm2  0.17 A 1350 kHz
38 0.101 mm 0.00797 mm2  0.13 A 1750 kHz
39 0.0887 mm 0.00632 mm2  0.11 A 2250 kHz
40 0.0799 mm 0.00501 mm2  0.09 A 2900 kHz

9 thoughts on “Wire size table”

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  2. NZ wiring as per British standard or American standard for domestic wiring please clarified for 50 Hz,OR 60 Hz

  4. Good idea but a bit crippled implementation…
    Why are so many empty cells in this table for amperage and how is one suppose to know from where to take the value for such an empty cell (ie from the cell above or the one below)?
    For example, 1.45 mm diameter should it be 16.1 A or 22A?

  5. Hi Lian

    I updated the table with AWG current rating values, but as you can see, the European and American does not scale even, so its up to how conservative you want to design which rating you will use, it is afterall just a matter of how much temperature rise you will allow 🙂

    You can not just pick a value up or downwards from another gauge wire.

    Kind regards
    Mads

  6. What is the European wire size for the length of 3 phase with 25 amperage at 100 meters?

  8. What is the maximum current 0.51mm insulated winding wire ( used for coils ) can handle before the insulation is destroyed. Or put another way best operation current.

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