audiphile power cords

Sorry, but I have to disagree with this statement,

I used a double run of 10 AWG, which is the equivalent of 4 AWG

For equivalent wire gauge of a double run using same wire, you double the cross sectional area, not the diameter. Looking at this wire gauge chart, a double run of 10 AWG is equivalent to 7 AWG, and this AWG calculator confirms that.

Hope this helps with you future calculations.

Audiolabyrinth, if you are referring to your Tara Labs Cobalt, I think you are confused. It uses 60 runs of a smaller wire to make 10 AWG, not 60 runs of 10 AWG. It would be impossible to terminate 60 runs of 10 AWG to the Cobalt's connectors. Also, it would be much larger and extremely difficult to bend, and as Atmasphere stated, required by law to be flexible.

Audiolabyrinth, I believe you are confused again. A power cord consists of 3 conductors, hot, neutral and ground. The gauge of the power cord is the gauge of one of those conductors, not the 3 combined. Tara Labs specs the Cobalt as a 10 gauge power cord, so I'm thinking the 60 runs would be 20 runs in each of the 3 conductors, therefore making the 20 runs of this smaller wire equivalent to 10 gauge. Same is true for speaker cable that has 2 conductors, positive and negative. The gauge of the speaker cable is the gauge of one of those conductors, not the 2 combined.

Thanks Al, your input is always very much appreciated, and I'm sure sometimes my answers are influenced by what I have learned reading your posts.

Tony

Audiolabyrinth, as I said the power cord consists of 3 conductors.

Hot - 20 runs of the smaller wire
Neutral - 20 runs of the smaller wire
Ground - 20 runs of the smaller wire

for a total of 60 runs.

You should use 20 in the AWG calculator for number of wires, not 60, to determine the equivalent gauge, as the gauge of the power cord is the size of only one of the conductors, not all 3 of them combined.