Re: [EVDL] Calculating nickel strip amp carrying power

2021-02-07 Thread Lawrence Rhodes via EV
 It appears that nickel strip will not carry 40amps in a single strip. Lawrence Rhodes -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Re: [EVDL] Calculating nickel strip amp carrying power

2021-02-07 Thread Jan Steinman via EV
Why must nickel be used? Copper is a much better conductor. "Power" has little to do with it. The word I think you're looking for is "ampacity." And that is a trade-off between acceptable temperature rise (power dissipation) and acceptable voltage drop. And either of those will change with

Re: [EVDL] Calculating nickel strip amp carrying power

2021-02-07 Thread paul dove via EV
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[EVDL] Calculating nickel strip amp carrying power

2021-02-07 Thread Lawrence Rhodes via EV
What Nickel Strip size is equivalent to 10 awg wire.  Lawrence Rhodes ** -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20210207/5e1fc080/attachment.h