AWG wire sizes in the European Union

TConnolly

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Has there been any recent changes regarding the use of AWG wire sizes in panels exported to the EU? Its been about 10 years since I sent a panel to the EU and I was wondering if anything had changed in that regard. In the past we've used AWG wire and rated it accordingly to the nearest smaller IEC wire size, eg, a #18 wire (.82mm2) rated as a .75mm2 wire, #12 wire (3.31mm2) rated as a 2.5mm2 wire, etc. Is that still acceptable or have they tightened down and required mm sized wiring?
 
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Thanks. What I was meaning was if there had been a change that required us to use strictly metric sizes instead of appropriately rated AWG sizes.
 
Not that I've heard of. Last year I was on a project on an oilrig here in scandinavia that had alot of old chinese cables in all sorts of odd sizes and that was apparently ok.
 

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