I have an Excel spreadsheet (Mil-W-5088L, Ver. 3) in which you list devices, current requirement, length of wire, bundled or unbundled, continuous or intermittent; and it will immediately tell you what wire size is appropriate.  I’d be happy to e-mail direct to you or anyone who needs it.

Al

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From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Dale Rogers
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 4:52 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: What size II.

Oops, wrong chart.  Well, it was the right chart, but not the chart
that had the maximum run length info.  It's from a page I got from
the Nuckolls site, but I can't figure out where, so I'll just attach it.
It's only a two page file.

The first chart came out of AEC Chapter 8 - which has also has
a graph illustrating the relationships for 5, 10, & 30 degree temp
rises (page 10).

Dale R.

Dale Rogers wrote:

   Sorry this took me so long to find, but I knew
that I had seen a chart that shows a relationship
among current, wire size, run length, and
temperature rise.  Sure enough, it was in Bob
Nuckolls's AEC.  It's on a one page PDF file at:

http://www.aeroelectric.com/articles.html

click on the fifth entry, "pdf wire size chart".

That at least leaves only the acceptable voltage
drop as an unknown variable.

Dale R.