Help understanding wire current carrying capacity

Hi Louis @inst-tech,

  Thanks for your kind reply.

  It has been my assumption from the beginning of this discussion that the wire is only required as a power source ..  @inq/Dennis is far too nimble with WiFi to want to send data over bits of bent metal!

I totally acknowledge your experience and agree that in most cases it is good to get power transmitted with minimal loss.

Best wishes, Dave

@davee Dave, Thanks for all the knowledge and thought provoking comments you have made on a variety of subject matters. It has always been my contention that nothing is as simple as it appears to be sometimes, but as Technicians and engineers, we tend to over think a problem too!..lol  Yes, I think your correct that @ing (Dennis) is probably using Wifi to transmit data to the robot, and is using wires for power transmission only.. As I was also an instructor as part of my job description in my past life, I tend to put on my "teaching hat" sometimes..and forget who the audience is that I'm addressing... 🤔

Keep up the good work of providing excellent commentary on the subject matters..

Kind regards,

LouisR

@inst-tech,

I tend to think that what we write here isn't only for the OP or even the current viewers.  You may be teaching someone way down the road from now.  It may be an expert or a child digging in their first research project... or... incorporated into some AI.  😎 🤣 Scary thought, that that might be!

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@inst-tech,

I tend to think that what we write here isn't only for the OP or even the current viewers.  You may be teaching someone way down the road from now.  It may be an expert or a child digging in their first research project... or... incorporated into some AI.  😎 🤣 Scary thought, that that might be!

@ing, Dennis..indeed, a scary thought...hehehe.. But all kidding aside, you are exactly right!

The impact on others down the road is incalculable, hence, the need to be accurate and precise in my comments, which I confess I am not always, but never deliberately! 😆

Not a big fan of AI yet, but it is interesting to see how it progresses..We in the Industrial Automation and process control world have been using what was referred to as "Fuzzy logic" in process controllers from the early 1990's, although Fuzzy logic control was first introduce back in 1987. We used them in cascade with host computers to do complex control algorithms such as boiler steam production and of course paper machine control..

These are the forerunners of our modern AI systems..but I think, giving the safety of human and equipment, that AI may not be suitable for many types of operations that human now control because of the human factor, ie.. ability to "think" through a problem using intuition and abstract  thought processes. With the brain utilizing 10's - 100's of billion neurons, organized in ways we are not fully aware of yet, we are not likely to see robots replacing safety critical jobs in the near future, but we will no doubt see better self driving vehicles and automated processes that do not require the above mentioned "thinking" processes.  And that's my take on AI...

Regards,

LouisR