GREY 18AWG Stranded 50V Automotive Hook Up Wire - 40' Length

in this video we're gonna talk about why your size wire gauge amperage diameter and other things related to this topic perhaps you've seen this abbreviation AWG this stands for American wire gauge and it tells us the size of the wire and how much current it can safely handle so the picture on the left represents a wire gauge of 10 the one on the right represents a wide age of 20 now we need to understand is that the higher number corresponds to a smaller wire a wire gauge of 10 has a diameter size of about 2.5 8 8 millimeters whereas a wire with a gauge of 20 has a diameter of 0.8 1/2 millimeters so as you can see as the wire gauge increases in number the diameter or the size of the wire decreases so these two are inversely related a wire gauge of 10 can handle a current of 30 amps whereas a wire with a gauge of 20 can handle a current of 5 amps so as the gauge number increases the amou