• Euler007@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    The way I read it is smaller conductors and thinner insulation. Basically remove all safety factors from the electrical engineer calculations.

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      1 year ago

      Considering the basically zero fires at Tesla chargers, there obviously had to be a good amount of safety factor involved. I say this as an EE.

    • manicdee33@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      Liquid cooled cables don’t need larger conductors because the cables are kept cool by actively cooling them. The reason passively cooled cables need larger conductors is that resistance heating of conductors is a self-reinforcing cycle where the resistance increases as temperature increases, and temperature increases as resistance increases. So you use much larger conductors for passively cooled cables to keep resistance heating within the capabilities of the passive cooling of that conductor.