what gauge wire?

[bagpiperjosh]

i plan on basing my elec brewery build off of this diagram. what wires need to be 10 ga and what wires need to be 14 ga?
on a side note....
i accidently bought the element LED lights are smaller than the normal sized lights so i dont think 10ga will fit in there, but i would imagine i should be able to use 14 ga there.

 

[brockettbrews]

there are forulmas to firgue this out go to mike holts website. you can plug the numbers in. if you go with the smaller gauage it is bigger wire. i would go with the 10 ga.

 

[Budzu]

Simple answer is if its protected by 15 amp circuit breaker, then you can use 14 gauge wire. all the wires before the 15 amp protection need to be sized 10 gauge because of the 30 amp gfi being all that's protecting them.

Less simple answer: different kinds of wire have different ratings for different applications. Check what they are before committing to one wiring strategy. It's not just simply 10awg=30amp, 12awg=20amp, 14awg=15amp. Those are just safe household wiring ratings, not industrial enclosed control panel ratings.

Be careful with that LED, make sure it can handle what you are running through it.

 

[bagpiperjosh]

Simple answer is if its protected by 15 amp circuit breaker, then you can use 14 gauge wire. all the wires before the 15 amp protection need to be sized 10 gauge because of the 30 amp gfi being all that's protecting them.

Less simple answer: different kinds of wire have different ratings for different applications. Check what they are before committing to one wiring strategy. It's not just simply 10awg=30amp, 12awg=20amp, 14awg=15amp. Those are just safe household wiring ratings, not industrial enclosed control panel ratings.

Be careful with that LED, make sure it can handle what you are running through it.

its a 240v led.. its just smaller

 

[audger]

indicator lights dont carry any current, so you could probably even use 22-24 gauge wire and be fine. it depends on how much current will be flowing over the wire, regardless of voltage.

Well home base wire i think require 120V
so 120 V if you turn into ampere,
May be these are 15 Amp,

i have yet to understand any of your 5 posts....

 

[CidahMastah]

i have yet to understand any of your 5 posts....

Glad I am not the only one who was thinking that, like inner monologue was being posted.

 

[bagpiperjosh]

Glad I am not the only one who was thinking that, like inner monologue was being posted.

yea. i was all like "wtf did he just say?"

 

[ylpaul2000]

Ya it kind of sounded like the responses I get when I post an item on eBay and somebody from a foreign country tries to respond by typing a response and then use an online language converter. Ya it does translate but the fine points of the language are lost, total literal translation. Really pretty funny!

 

[l3asturd]

You can also use 18 gauge and just protect the LED circuit with a lower amperage fuse (fast acting), such as a 1A. I used 18 gauge on all my circuitry, the relay coils (not the relay poles), the PIDs, the LEDs, the SSR 12V input. The trick is (for full protection) you'd need to fuse the wire with a fuse that has a lower amperage rating than the wire. My entire 18 gauge circuit probably requires less than 4 amps. The only thing I ran 14 gauge wire to is my pump outlets and my pump switches. I ran 10 gauge from my power input, through the relays, through the SSR, through the 25A CB, to the element outlets.

Of course the down side of fusing is having to keep spare fuses available in case. The up side is fusing aids in troubleshooting any electrical problems.