Re: Wire Gauge for Stepper Motors

Kory,

For another opinion, check out this on-line wire gauge calculator:

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/9643/awg.htm


Jeff
www.xylotex.com

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "Kory Hamzeh" <kory@a...> wrote:
>
> I'm wiring up a stepper motor to a driver and the max current
through this
> motor is 1.5 amps (the driver has a current limit). I have some
very nice 26
> AWG stranded color coded wire that I want to use, but one chart I
looked at
> said that 26 gauge can handle up to 4 amps (seems high) and another
said
> 0.361 amps (seems very low). I was wondering what the group
consensus was on
> this. The wires on the stepper are too short and I need to make an
> extension. The existing motor wires are somewhere between 20 AWG
and 26 AWG
> it seems.
>
> Thanks,
> Kory