how to caculate cable size for given amperes

Answer Posted / virendra

current carring capacity might gets slight change dependign
upon the manufacture. but in coomon practice as amarnath
said Aluminus takes 1A per sq.mm but for Copper it is 1.6 /
sq.mm

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