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Originally Posted by ShrimpBurrito
How can the cross-sectional area be more? If I have 1000 tiny strands of copper and stack them, the area should be the same whether I stack them in a circle or in a rectangle, right?
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If you note, I said 'usually'. There is no doubt that you could pick a braid with lower cross sectional area than a 2 ga. wire. Within parameters of practicality, braid is usually the low dc resistance winner.