Iec Wire Numbering Standard

Washburn moen steel wire gauge is used in the united states for steel.

Iec wire numbering standard. It is also known as brown sharpe wire gauge the more is the gauge number the smaller is the wire diameter. European standards also incorporate certain standards in iec and iso such as iec60811 the european standard number is en 60811 and the national standards are numbered bs en60811 nf en 60811 etc. Iec 60228 is the international electrotechnical commission s international standard on conductors of insulated cables. The biggest issue i see is the length of the wire number.

Only the main title for the standard is listed here. Iec standards often have multiple sub part documents. This is an incomplete list of standards published by the international electrotechnical commission iec. The fourth edition iec.

Wires thicker than gauge 0 are denoted as 00 or 2 0 000 or 3 0 etc. International standard iec 60446 basic and safety principles for man machine interface marking and identification identification of equipment terminals conductor terminations and conductors defines basic safety principles for identifying electrical conductors by colours or numerals for example in electricity distribution wiring the standard has been withdrawn. If you get past 8 letters for a wire number it gets unreadable. The iec international electrotechnical commission is the world s leading organization that prepares and publishes international standards for all electrical electronic and related technologies.

International standard wire sizes iec 60228. Using common sense i would never put a wire number upside down based on spec. For example iec 27 became iec 60027. The european standard converted by the iec standard shall have the first digit of the standard number 6.

The numbers of older iec standards were converted in 1997 by adding 60000. Individual numbers per wire are extremely rare but i have seen it on imported machinery. Iec 81346 2 published jointly by iec and iso defines classes and subclasses of objects based on a purpose or task related view of the objects together with their associated letter codes to be used in reference designations. Missing page numbers correspond to the french language pages.

This is a preview click here to buy the full publication. Reference number iec 60364 1 2005 e international standard iec 60364 1 fifth edition 2005 11 this english language version is derived from the original bilingual publication by leaving out all french language pages. In australia our standards are based on the iec standrad but wires have to be numbered and if a wire goes to several different components they each carry the same number. Think of the end user having to turn his head upside down based on this spec.