Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] LED blinking

[Eric Blossom]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 02:01:42PM -0500, Rahul Dhar wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 04:06:20PM -0800, Matt Ettus wrote:
> > 
> >> Can I use any wire, or is there a specific gauge, etc., that I need to
> >> look for?
>
> > Any wire that can handle 3 amps.
> 
> I'm not very well-versed with wiring, but from a bit of googling, it
> seems that 16 AWG wire should do.  Is this correct?
> http://www.supersoft.sk/hardware/ta_AWG.asp gives the following:
> Gauge   Diam    Area    R       I at 3A/mm2
> AWG     mm      mm2     ohm/km  mA
> 16      1,30    1,3     13,0    3,97 A
>         1,40    1,5     11,2    4,60 A
>         1,50    1,8     9,70    5,30 A
> 

16 gauge sounds like overkill.  Try something like 20 or 24, or
whatever you've got ;-)

Eric