Join to 16 AWG Cables to have the capacitance of a 14 AWG cable?

Question

I need to feed a VHF with a AWG 14 cable, unfortunatelly I only have AWG16 of good quality. I can not buy a type 3 marine cable in this country. It is possible to obtain a capacitance simillar to a 14 AWG cable by joining the core two AWG16 cables and run them in paralel from the VHF to the bateries, both + and - of course?

Any special consideration to make?

Regards,

Roman.

Answer 1

you can, #16 awg has a cross sectional area of 2580CM and #14 awg has a cross sectional area of 4110 CM. 2580CM * 2= 5160 CM, just parallel wires in exactly the same lenght each.

Note: its not the capacitance you're correcting but the cross sectional area of wires.