ane2017 Standard wire gauge - Wikipedia Standard wire gauge From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia British Standard Wire Gauge is a set of wire sizes given by BS 3737:1964 (now withdrawn), and is generally abbreviated to SWG. It is also known as: Imperial Wire Gauge or British Standard Gauge. Use of SWG sizes has fallen greatly in popularity, but is still used as a measure of thickness in guitar strings and some electrical wire, Cross sectional area in square millimetres is now a more popular size measurement. The current British Standard for metallic materials such as wire and sheet is BS 6722:1986, which is a solely metric standard. SWG was fixed by Order of Council August 23, 1883. It was constructed by improving the Birmingham Wire Gauge. It was made a legal standard on March 1, 1884 by the British Board of Trade. SWG is not to be confused with American Wire Gauge which has a similar but not quite interchangeable numbering scheme. A standard wire gauge. The basis of the system is the thou (or mil in US English), or 0.001 in. No. 7/0, the largest size, is 0.50 in. (500 thou or 12.7 mm) in diameter, and the smallest, No. 50, is 0.001 in. (1 thou or about 25 um) in diameter. The wire diameter diminishes with increasing gauge size. Between each gauge, the weight per unit length diminishes by approximately 20%, Because the weight per unit length is related to the area, and therefore the square of the diameter, the diameter diminishes by approximately 10.6%: Diameter Ratio = 1— /I—0.2 = 10.6% A table of wire gauges and diameters is shown below.!'I!2] The relationship of diameter to gauge is piecewise linear, only approximating a (constant-ratio) exponential curve. iipevienwikipeia ocgiwiki'Standard_wire_gauge 18ane2017 British Standard Wire Gauge (SWG) diameters SWG (in) (mm) Step 7H | 0,500 |12,700, 0.036"/gauge 610 0.464 | 11.786 510 | 0.432 [10,973 °°? 788° 4/0 | 0.400 10.160, 0.028"/gauge 3/0 0.372 9.449 2/0 | 0.348 | 8.839 0 0324 | 8.230 | 0.024"/gauge 10.300 7.620 2 | 0276 7.010 3 | 0.252 6.401 4 | 0.232 | 5.893 | 0.020"/gauge 5 | 0.212 5.385 6 | 0.192 | 4.877 7 | 0.176 | 4.470 8 0.160 | 4064, 1788 9 | 0.144 | 3.658 10 | 0.128 | 3.251 11 | 0.116 | 2.946 0.012"/gauge 12 | 0.104 | 2.642 13 | 0.092 | 2.337 14 | 0.080 | 2.032 15. | 0.072 | 1.829 16 | 0.064 | 1.626 | 0.008"/gauge 17 | 0.056 | 1.422 18 | 0.048 | 1.219 19 | 0.040 | 1.016 20 | 0.036 | 0.914 0.004"/gauge 21 | 0.032 | 0.813 22 | 0,028 | 0.711 23 | 0.024 | 0.610 24 | 0,022 | 0.559 | 0.002"/gauge 25. | 0.020 |0.5080 26 | 0.018 |0.4572 0.0016"/gauge 27 |0.0164| 0.4166 28 0.0148 0.3759 5 06s ovpauge 29. |0.0136| 0.3454 30. 0.0124| 0.3150] 0.0008"/gauge 31. (0.0116 |0.2946 320.0108 | 0.2743 hiipsJfenwikipeia orgiwiki'Standard_wire_ gauge Standard wire gauge - Wikipediaanezot7 Standard wire gauge - Wikipesia 33 |0.0100|0.2540 34 0.0092 | 0.2337 35 0.0084 0.2134 36 0.0076 0.1930 370.0068 0.1727 38 (0.0060 0.1524 39 (0.0052 0.1321 40 0.0048 | 0.1219 41 (0.0044) 0.1118 420.004 |0.1016 43 (0.0036 0.0914 0.0004"/gauge 44 (0.0032| 0.0813, 45 (0.0028 0.0711 46 0.0024| 0.0610 47 (0.0020 0.0508 480.0016 0.0406 49 0.0012 0.0305 0.0002"/gauge 50 (0.0010 0.0254 See also = Wire gauge comparison chart = IEC 60228, the metric wire-size standard used in most parts of the world. * Circular mil, Electrical industry standard for wires larger than 4/0. = American Wire Gauge (AWG), used primarily in the US and Canada «= Stubs Iron Wire Gauge «= Jewelry wire gauge = Body jewelry sizes ® Electrical wiring = Number 8 wire, a term used in the New Zealand vernacular References 1. LeweoS Wire Tables 1962 2. Russ Rowlett (2008), American and British Wire Gauges, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, retrieved 2011-04-06 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Standard_wire_gaugeé&oldid=768698291" Categories: Wire gauges 1is page was last modified on 5 March 2017, at 08:06, = Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. hipsJfenwikipeia orgiwiki'Standard_wire_ gauge a8