> Hi Dave et al!
>
> You must not get out much or haven't done much active
> benchwork...<g>...the Radio Shack alligator test leads
> that I mentioned in the first post are always stranded
> wires, roughly 18-22 gauge (though you can get thicker
> gauges even with heavier alligator clips attached).
I've worked with 26 to #6 gauge wire most of my life as a telephone
technician and low voltage electrician. As you said "the wires were just
alligator clip connectors from radio shack that where hooking up some
circuit I was tinkering with" I apologize for not knowing they were as
described as above. I used alligator clips from Radio Shack with solid
strand wires many, many times. Most of my bench work was done in the field
and with what was at hand. That's why I had to learn the principles of
things. You are right about not getting out much. Haven't done so for a few
years.
If you have a copy of the NEC check the ampacity of 18 and 22 gauge wires.
It doesn't take many amps to reach their limit, and thus there will be
changes in their current carrying properties.
>snip
> I guess what adds to this is the idea of matter
> currents and that we might not have as good an
> understanding of electrons as we think if there is
> some kind of inertia involved with them. Certainly
> lots of room for test.
Truer words were never spoken. You may want to look at Ohm's law very
closely and see how it relates to the movement of matter. Forget the terms
of amps, volts, and ohms. Look at it as mass or density trying to reach
unity(don't know the proper term, wanting to return to its natural state)
versus the resistance to same.
Dave Nelson
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