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Current carrying cable/busbar cooling ways in an aircraft
For an aircraft has an altitude 35000 feet, what'd it have to cool its cables/copper busbars up? High altitude means lower air density and it means lower oxygen, convection doesn't make sense and if I ...
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What is the best metal to use for lead acid battery cables?
I purchased an AGM lead acid deep cycle battery, inverter and solar panels. All of the provided cables connecting these devices were made of thick copper.
I also have Goal Zero Yeti 400 lead acid ...
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Can I use copper tape to connect Live AC power?
I want to fit a light on a wall in my flat, but there's no way of getting power cables discretely to it (I can't get to it from behind the wall, and the wall's not thick enough for me to embed a cable)...
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Why are copper cables round?
Why are cables only made of round shapes? What is the advantage of it? Why aren't there triangular or quadrilateral or pentagon shapes of cables?
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High voltage cable cross section
What kind of power and voltage can the cable in the photo possibly drive and why is it composed of a lot of small cables? What if the diameter of the single copper cables were a little bigger? How ...
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