Wire Resistance and Voltage Drop Calculator

Length of Cable (Feet)  or   (Meters)
Load Current (Amps)
Source Voltage (DC Volts)
 

  Size Diameter Resistance @ 77 F Resistance
for length
(Ohms)
Voltage
Drop
(Volts)
Output Voltage
(Source
less Drop)
Percentage Loss (%)
  AWG Metric
mm2
inch mm ohm/1000' ohm/km
  24 0.205 0.0232 0.590 26.1823 85.900
  22 0.326 0.0293 0.744 16.4592 54.000
  20 0.518 0.0369 0.938 10.3632 34.000
  18 0.823 0.0465 1.182 6.5227 21.400
  16 1.309 0.0587 1.491 4.0843 13.400
  14 2.081 0.0740 1.880 2.5756 8.450
  12 3.309 0.0933 2.371 1.6215 5.320
  10 5.261 0.1177 2.989 1.0180 3.340
  8 8.366 0.1484 3.770 0.6401 2.100
  6 13.302 0.1871 4.753 0.4023 1.320
  4 21.151 0.2360 5.994 0.2533 0.831
  2 33.631 0.2976 7.558 0.1594 0.523
  1 42.408 0.3341 8.487 0.1265 0.415
  1/0 53.475 0.3752 9.530 0.1003 0.329
  2/0 67.431 0.4213 10.702 0.0796 0.261
  3/0 85.029 0.4732 12.018 0.0631 0.207
  4/0 107.219 0.5313 13.495 0.0500 0.164