What is 500 mcm?

Answer 1

Answer for USA, Canada and countries running a 60 Hz supply service.

500 mcm wire is a stranded wire with the equivalent of 500,000 circular mils in cross-sectional area.

A circular mil is a circle with a diameter of 1 mil, or 1/1000th of an inch.

500 kcmil means the same thing.

In common practice this size conductor is capable of handling 400 amps.

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