[sdiy] stripper recommendations

Ian Fritz ijfritz at comcast.net
Fri Dec 7 15:18:31 CET 2007


Hi Tony --

At 09:42 PM 12/6/2007, Tony K wrote:
>Hey that's what I've been doing for years now.Cool ;-)
>I used to worry about this technique, especially power voltage drops.
>How much current can those little wires handle again ?
>Hmm where's that resistivity formula from Physics ?

R = (rho)*Length/Area  :-)

A PCB trace is very thin, so you're ahead with a #30 wire, I 
think.  Anyway, I usually use something thicker for the power busses.  And 
weren't whole computers built with #30 wire-wrap?

Ian




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