---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 111.60-4"
title: "46"
number: "111.60-4"
heading: "Minimum cable conductor size."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/111.60-4"
---

# §111.60-4. Minimum cable conductor size.


Each cable conductor must be 18 AWG (0.82 mm 2) or larger except—

- (a) Each power and lighting cable conductor must be 14 AWG (2.10 mm 2) or larger; and
- (b) Each thermocouple, pyrometer, or instrumentation cable conductor must be 22 AWG (0.33 mm 2) or larger.

## Notes

### Amendments

[CGD 94-108, 61 FR 28280, June 4, 1996, as amended by USCG-2020-0075, 88 FR 16363, Mar. 16, 2023]

### Authority

Authority: 46 U.S.C. 3306, 3703; DHS Delegation No. 00170.1, Revision No. 01.2. Section 111.05-20 and Subpart 111.106 also issued under sec. 617, Pub. L. 111-281, 124 Stat. 2905.

### Source

Source: CGD 74-125A, 47 FR 15236, Apr. 8, 1982, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[CGD 94-108, 61 FR 28280, June 4, 1996, as amended by USCG-2020-0075, 88 FR 16363, Mar. 16, 2023]