alt.engineering.electrical

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:32:51 -0500 Tim Perry wrote:

| Another reason for thicker wire is termianl corrosion. Bigger wires just
| last longer in harsh conditions.

Is that due to the larger contact area of the terminal? If so, why not
large stranded wire (e.g. where the strands themselves are at least 14 AWG)
fan out into multiple individual contact points? Or if not that, then at
least taper the bundle of strands and have decreasing widths in a longer
terminal to make better overall contact.

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