I bought a pack of single-ended crimp-style connectors at a standard hardware store. The data sheet specifies allowable wire configurations, but I am having trouble reading it.
The linked data sheet contains a table (see bottom of post for text description):
However, all the cell values have a dash in them. For example, the package says Max 5 22 gauge wires, but I don't see a clear way to derive this from the table. These values exist:
- row = 22 wire size, number of wires = 1, column = size 22, value =
4-14 - row = 22 wire size, number of wires = 4, column = size 22, value =
1-11
What does the first and last numbers mean? Does the type of wire (stranded/solid) factor into the table?
Description of the table, in case the image above (or linked
datasheet) is inaccessible:
On the left is
wire size
- there are row headers such as
size 22- each row header has sub headers such as
1,2,3, etc.On the top , there is "number of additional wires of one wire type"
- there are column headers such as
size 22
Best Answer
From the table it looks like the MINIMUM number of 22 AWG wires is 5 with a maximum of 15.
I think the '-' is to be interpreted as 'to'. So '4-14' means 4 wires up to 14 wires. (Notice that in the case of 22AWG all the combinations add up to values between 5 (minimum) and 15 which is the maximum allowed for 22AWG).
In the case of wires larger than 12 AWG you can only add one extra wire so there is no hyphen.