ASTM F1883 : 03(2013)

Standard Practice for Selection of Wire and Cable Size in AWG or Metric Units

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1.1 This practice is intended as a guide to shipbuilders, shipowners, and design agents for use in the selection of conductor size for single conductor or multiple conductor cable sizes either in American Wire Gauge (AWG) or metric designations for commercial ship design and construction.

1.2 The comparison chart of electrical conductor sizes shown in Table 1 presents a combined listing of international standard sizes of Class 2 stranded copper conductors in accordance with AWG (Specification B8) English units or IEC (IEC 60228) metric units.

TABLE 1 Conversion Table—AWG/Metric Preferred Sizes of Conductors

Size Metric, mm²	Size AWG/MCM	Area in Circ Mils (Nominal)	Ampacity^A	dc Resistances at 20°C^B
Size Metric, mm²	Size AWG/MCM	Area in Circ Mils (Nominal)	Ampacity^A	Ohms per 1000 ft	Ohms per km
	2000*^C	2 000 000	1155	0.0053	0.0177
1000*		1 970 000	1145	0.0054	0.0176
	1750*	1 750 000	1070	0.0063	0.0199
800*		1 580 000	1009	0.0067	0.0224
	1500*	1 500 000	980	0.0071	0.0232
	1250*	1 250 000	890	0.0085	0.0278
630*		1 240 000	886	0.0096	0.0286
	1000*	1 000 000	780	0.0106	0.0347
500*		987 000	772	0.0105	0.0369
400*		789 000	675	0.0133	0.0475
	750*	750 000	655	0.0141	0.0463
	600*	600 000	575	0.0176	0.0578
300*		592 000	570	0.0211	0.0607
	500*	500 000	515	0.0211	0.0694
240*		474 000	499	0.0219	0.0762
	400*	400 000	455	0.0264	0.0867
185*		365 000	431	0.0286	0.1000
	350*	350 000	420	0.0302	0.0990
	300*	300 000	375	0.0353	0.1157
150*		296 000	372	0.0353	0.1260
	250*	250 000	340	0.0423	0.1388
120*		237 000	327	0.0436	0.1540
	4/0*	211 600	300	0.0500	0.1639
95*		187 000	265	0.0551	0.1950
	3/0*	167 000	260	0.0631	0.2065
70*		138 000	230	0.0752	0.2700
	2/0*	133 100	225	0.0794	0.2605
	1/0*	105 600	195	0.1002	0.3288
50*		98 700	185	0.1044	0.3910
	1	83 690	165	0.1261	0.4139
35*		69 100	144	0.1495	0.5290
	2*	66 360	140	0.1588	0.5211
	3	52 620	120	0.2005	0.6577
25*		49 300	115	0.2057	0.7340
	4*	41 740	105	0.2528	0.8295
16*		31 600	89	0.3259	1.160
	6*	26 240	80	0.4023	1.320
10*		19 700	63	0.5167	1.840
	8*	16 510	55	0.6380	2.093
6.0*		11 800	43	0.8543	3.110
	10*	10 380	40	1.017	3.335
4.0*		7 890	30	1.304	4.700
	12*	6 530	25	1.620	5.315
2.5*		4 930	22	2.067	7.560
	14*	4 110	20	2.573	8.442
1.5*		2 960	. . .	3.417	12.20
	16*	2 580	. . .	4.020	13.19
1.0*		1 970	. . .	5.213	18.20
0.90		1 773	. . .	6.45	21.10
	18*	1 620	. . .	6.82	20.95
0.80		1 576	. . .	6.52	21.40
0.75*		1 480	. . .	6.82	24.80
0.60*		1 182	. . .	9.5	31.16
	20*	1 020	. . .	10.5	34.45
0.50*		987	. . .	11.4	36.70
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