[APD] RE: Heating cables-- Wire resistance

["S. Hieber" <shieber at yahoo_com>]

The basic correlation of reistance to AWG wire size can be
seen here, among other palces:

http://www.paigewire.com/copperAWG.htm

The temperature coefficient of copper can be seen here:

http://www.cirris.com/testing/temperature/copper.html

The practical advantages to having substrate heating cables
versus other methods of heating a planted aquarium are not
to be found ;-)  Actually, you can read the benefits of
heating cables at George and Karla Booth's excellent web
site:

http://www.frii.com/~gbooth/AquaticConcepts/

Scott H.

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S. Hieber

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