Mike Raiford wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> 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.)
> 
> Hmmm... Here's some info:
> 
> http://www.powerstream.com/Wire_Size.htm
> http://www.epanorama.net/documents/wiring/wire_resistance.html
> 
> According to the one site, 6 AWG wire would be enough. Next size up if 
> over 100 ft. :)

I'd say 3 AWG - but either way, it's less than 1 cm thick.

Like I said, when they hook up the external generator, it comes with a 
cable well over 10 cm thick (!)

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