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Mike Reinath,

you need to look at several factors when sizing a line, mainly amp load and
wire length to (and from) your device.  Temperature is one factor but it
only comes into play in short runs of wire for single wires in free air (not
enough length to dump the heat). In long runs, the limiting factor is a
voltage drop of ~1 volt. The spreadsheet looks at both and selects the more
conservative of the two. It is based on military specification Mil-W-5088L.

Scott

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