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No, the higher gauge means a thinner wire.

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The larger the gauge, the smaller the diameter. That makes 22 gauge wire not as thick as 18 gauge wire.

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As the AWG wire numbers get smaller the wire size gets larger so a #20 wire is larger that a #26 wire

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Yes, a larger gauge number means a thinner wire.

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