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    Posted: 15/Aug/2012 at 9:45am
Hi,

Just purchased a 950 mah 25-50C turnigy nanotech battery. The discharge wire is 20 AWG. Can 20 AWG wire carry 24.5 (0.95*25) amps without over-heating or perhaps burning up? How much current can 20 AWG wire handle?

Edited by rajeev - 15/Aug/2012 at 1:20pm
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The amperage, and voltage always travel on the surface of the wire! what you need to make sure is that the multi-strand wire that you are using have lots of surface, this is accomplished using large amounts of very thing "Hair thin" copper coated with Thin wire! and I have never seen in my life a poor quality wire coming out of a decent battery!
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The surface effect is for AC not DC, DC uses the whole cross section.
With AC the higher the frequency the higher the skin effect (surface effect).
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Voltage doesn't travel anywhere - it gives the push to the current (guess that's why they call it Electro Motive Force)
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