scott wrote:
>> (Woah - 63A? o_O Anybody know what thickness of copper it takes to 
>> handle that kind of currentl? That's gotta be more like a girder than 
>> a wire!)
> 
> Roughly double your standard 13A cable would do...  Look at the cable 
> going to the starter motor on your car, that's usually 100A or so.

1. A car runs on 12V electrics, not 250V. Does that make a difference?

2. Is maximum load proportional to diameter or cross section area? (The 
latter is quadratically propertional to diameter.)

> Can't you print it out tiled, ie 8 A3 sheets (or however many it is) 
> then just put them together?

Well, in principle yes. In practice, I very much doubt you'd ever get 
the pieces to line up properly. (Ever notice how map books *always* put 
the place you want to look at in the crease?) Plus I'm having enough 
trouble finding somewhere to put an A3 printout without it getting 
crinkled up... :-S

Apparently the planners have access to an A0 printer. I don't even want 
to imagine what that must cost... ;-)

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