25 May
2009
25 May
'09
5:51 p.m.
How many young engineers even know what
"DCC" (as in "#18 AWG DCC)
For wire, or light bulbs ? I guess the former, since you give an AWG size
(more likely to be SWG [1] over here), in which case it's 'Double Cotton
Covered' (there's also DSC, the 'S' being silk). For light bulbs it's
'Double Contact Cap', meaning a bayonet cap with 2 solder-blob contacts
on the base, like the common household bulb in the UK.
[1] Totally useless piece of trivia : Old UK knitting needle numbers are
the diameter using the SWG standard. Next time your wife/girlfriend/SO
needs to convert that to the diameter in mm, produce a set of wire tables
and see what an odd look you get :-)
-tony