Whats Telephone Cable rated for????

[pabernathy (Paul Abernathy, CMI®, CMECP® Electrical Code Academy,Inc.)]

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Used telephone cable to swith this light…Amazing…

[jwilliams4 (Jae Williams)]

Can one assume in the second picture that coupling three phone wires equals…oh, say 8 amp capacity??? maybe…???

[pabernathy (Paul Abernathy, CMI®, CMECP® Electrical Code Academy,Inc.)]

lol…if only you COULD parrallel conductors of that size…just maybe…lol…but ya cant…theheheh

[jwilliams4 (Jae Williams)]

Oh, darn…now I have to find some other way to do this…dad gummit, nohow!

[pbolliger (Patrick Bolliger)]

Thats called a light “dimming” circuit…
Just remove a wire or two and Vol la!!

[pabernathy (Paul Abernathy, CMI®, CMECP® Electrical Code Academy,Inc.)]

Nice…Remember When !

[bgraham (Bruce Graham, III, CMI)]

I once worked on an A/C unit that had 277v on 18ga wire, I guess someone at UL thought that was a good idea one day. It realy is all about the load.