Wire Gauges Question

[dtengineering]

A larger gauge means a smaller gauge number.

So if 14AWG is the minimum, you can use 10 or 12AWG. The larger diameter of the smaller gauge numbers means that the wires have a greater current carrying capacity and lower resistance.

When wiring our robot, wherever possible (and particularly for longer wire runs that carried power to a motor) we would try to go one step up on that chart if we could.

And yeah, wire gauge is a really archaic way to measure wires. You'd think FIRST would be helping to inspire science and technology by actually using the units of measurement that have been adopoted by scientists and technologists around the world, eh? Edit: Add smiley here. :-)

Jason