UL 1007 16 AWG Wire for Germany RFQs — 80°C 300V AWM

UL 1007 16 AWG Wire for Germany Price Inquiries

This page covers UL AWM Style 1007 in 16 AWG for buyers in Germany preparing a price inquiry or RFQ. It is written for appliance and equipment OEM procurement teams, engineering buyers and distributors whose drawing, BOM or existing wire specification calls for 16 AWG Style 1007.

Style 1007 is a single conductor with extruded PVC insulation, rated 80°C and 300 Vac with a Horizontal Flame designation, and an optional 60°C or 80°C Oil rating. The Style conductor range is 32 AWG–16 AWG in solid or stranded form. 16 AWG is the largest size in that range, and this page focuses on 16 AWG enquiries. The official Use is “Internal wiring of appliances.”

Because 16 AWG sits at the top of the Style, two questions come up repeatedly in German enquiries: what happens when a drawing calls for something heavier, and what an accurate quotation needs before it can be prepared. Both are addressed below.

Confirmed UL Style 1007 Construction and Ratings

Nine points to clarify about the table above:

1. 16 AWG is the largest conductor size listed in the Style range and is this page’s focus.
2. Sizes heavier than 16 AWG are outside Style 1007. A requirement for 14 AWG or larger is not a Style 1007 requirement.
3. Both conductor forms are permitted by the Style. This page does not preset solid or stranded.
4. Conductor material, plating, strand count, strand diameter and lay length are not defined by the Style.
5. 15 mil minimum average and 13 mil minimum at any point are two independent requirements. The 15 mil figure corresponds to roughly 0.38 mm as a metric reference only, and is not a guaranteed finished wall.
6. The insulation requirement is the same at 16 AWG as at the fine end of the range.
7. The Oil rating is optional, and a 60°C or 80°C requirement must be stated by the buyer.
8. The normal voltage rating is 300 Vac. The record gives no DC rating, and 600 V Peak – For Electronic Use Only is an optional tag indication rather than the working-voltage rating.
9. Finished OD, OD tolerance, conductor resistance, metric cross-section and ampacity are not defined by the Style, and the Style range is not a stock list.

16 AWG at the Top of the Style Range

Every size from 32 AWG up to and including 16 AWG falls inside Style 1007. Nothing heavier does. A German specification, BOM or legacy listing describing “UL 1007 14 AWG” or “UL 1007 12 AWG” contains a requirement the Style record does not support, and ranges such as “16–12 AWG UL 1007” are not Style 1007 ranges.

Where an enquiry combines Style 1007 with a size above 16 AWG, the requirement is not confirmed as valid. The buyer is asked for the drawing or for the UL Style actually required at that conductor size. Another Style is not substituted silently under the Style 1007 name, and any construction in a different Style is quoted and described under that Style’s own record.

Being the largest size in the range also assigns 16 AWG no circuit role. The Style does not designate it as a power conductor, a motor lead or a supply wire, gives no ampacity, and none is inferred here from the size or the ratings. Current-carrying capacity is evaluated through the buyer’s equipment design and the applicable approval process.

Conductor Construction Is an Order Parameter

The Style conductor information consists of the size range and the words solid or stranded. Everything else about a 16 AWG conductor is specified and confirmed for the order:

• solid or stranded form
• conductor material
• plating or surface finish
• strand count, strand diameter and lay construction, where controlled
• maximum conductor resistance, where controlled
• metric cross-section, where a German drawing specifies mm² rather than AWG

Descriptions such as “stranded tinned copper” or a named stranding class belong to a specific product datasheet, not to Style 1007. Generic AWG conversion charts and generic conductor resistance tables are not used as product data on this page: a mm² or Ω/km figure is meaningful only for an identified construction.

Insulation and Finished Dimensions

The insulation is extruded PVC, and the wall must meet both an average thickness of at least 15 mils and a thickness of at least 13 mils at every point around the conductor. These are floor values, not a nominal wall, and the second is not a tolerance on the first.

Minimum wall values do not produce a finished outer diameter. Actual OD depends on the conductor material and form, the actual conductor diameter, the PVC extrusion and manufacturing tolerance, so adding a generic 16 AWG conductor diameter to the minimum wall does not give a valid product dimension. Where grommet fit, terminal entry or routing clearance is controlled, state a maximum finished OD and OD tolerance in the RFQ so the proposed construction can be checked against it.

“Extruded PVC” also does not mean lead-free, halogen-free or LSZH material. PVC contains chlorine, and a halogen-free requirement is a different material specification rather than an option on this Style.

Ratings, the Optional Oil Rating and the Peak Tag

The temperature rating is 80°C, stated without a duty qualifier, and no service life or thermal margin is derived from it here. The normal voltage rating is 300 Vac, and Style 1007 is not described as a 600 V wire; where the optional tag “600 V Peak – For Electronic Use Only” is cited, both qualifiers stay attached to it.

The optional 60°C or 80°C Oil rating applies only where specified and confirmed, and its temperature is separate from the 80°C Style rating. The flame designation is Horizontal Flame; VW-1, FT1 and vertical flame designations are not part of this record.

Official Use: Internal Wiring of Appliances

The official Use is “Internal wiring of appliances.” This page keeps that wording and does not extend it to building or field wiring, conduit or tray installations, branch circuits, mains installation, external equipment wiring, automotive, solar or EV wiring, or general power distribution.

German enquiries at 16 AWG often come from contexts such as appliance harnesses, internal supply links within an appliance, control assemblies or OEM subassemblies. Those are buyer enquiry contexts that can be reviewed against the drawing, and they do not change the Use. Compliance of a finished appliance or assembly is established at the equipment level and is not conferred by the Style designation of one internal wire.

What a Germany Price Inquiry Needs

No price, price per metre, currency, price validity period or pricing formula is published on this page, and no copper-index or metal-linked pricing policy is stated as a default. A quotation is prepared against a defined construction and a defined commercial scope, and it is issued as a separate quotation document.

What makes a quotation accurate rather than provisional is the completeness of the enquiry. The factors that typically shape a quotation are the conductor construction, the quantity, the packaging and reel configuration, the documentation required and the delivery terms. Where any of those is open, the quotation can only be indicative, so German buyers are asked to submit the drawing, BOM or RFQ specification before quotation, together with the commercial details below.

How to Specify UL 1007 16 AWG for a Germany RFQ

A Style designation is a construction requirement, not a complete purchase specification. A complete enquiry adds:

• the UL AWM Style 1007 requirement and the 16 AWG size
• the 80°C and 300 Vac requirements
• solid or stranded construction
• conductor material and plating, where controlled by the drawing
• strand construction and maximum conductor resistance, where controlled
• whether an optional 60°C or 80°C Oil rating is required, and which
• insulation colour and any colour coding requirement
• the marking requirement
• maximum OD and OD tolerance, where controlled
• the appliance internal wiring location
• the drawing, BOM or equipment specification
• documentation requirements, quantity and packaging or reel preference
• the German destination and the requested Incoterm

Germany Procurement Context

Germany is the destination and procurement context for this page. German buyers may search for Style 1007 in 16 AWG when a drawing or BOM requires an 80°C, 300 Vac AWM internal appliance wiring construction at the heavy end of the Style range, whether for a series build, a replacement part or an export programme, and any German city or port can be named as the destination in an enquiry.

What Style 1007 Does and Does Not Define

Style 1007 defines:

• 80°C temperature rating and 300 Vac normal voltage rating
• Horizontal Flame
• optional 60°C or 80°C Oil
• conductor range 32 AWG–16 AWG, solid or stranded
• extruded PVC, 15 mil minimum average / 13 mil minimum at any point
• Marking: General
• Use: Internal wiring of appliances.
• optional tag: 600 V Peak – For Electronic Use Only

Style 1007 does not universally define:

• conductor material, plating, strand count, strand diameter or lay length
• sizes heavier than 16 AWG
• finished OD, OD tolerance or bend radius
• conductor resistance, ampacity, current rating or metric cross-section
• a DC voltage rating
• halogen-free or LSZH material properties
• power-lead, motor-lead or supply-conductor suitability
• price, currency, pricing formula, MOQ, stock, lead time, production capacity or shipping term

Common Procurement Errors

• Requesting 14 AWG or 12 AWG as Style 1007, or writing the range as 16–12 AWG.
• Assuming 16 AWG is stocked in every construction and colour.
• Assuming the conductor is tinned copper, or that all Style 1007 is stranded.
• Calling 16 AWG a power or motor lead on the basis of its size.
• Describing Style 1007 as a 600 V wire, or dropping “Peak” or “For Electronic Use Only” from the optional tag.
• Writing “80°C continuous”.
• Treating the optional Oil rating as standard.
• Omitting the 13 mil minimum-at-any-point requirement, or treating 15 mil as a nominal wall.
• Deriving a finished OD from the minimum wall values.
• Using a generic AWG-to-mm² conversion or resistance table as a product specification.
• Deriving ampacity from conductor size or the ratings.
• Describing PVC insulation as halogen-free or LSZH.
• Expecting a firm price before the construction, quantity, packaging, documentation and delivery terms are defined.

RFQ Information to Confirm

Style and ratings

• UL AWM Style 1007 requirement
• 16 AWG requirement
• 80°C and 300 Vac requirements
• Whether an optional 60°C or 80°C Oil rating is required, and which

Conductor and dimensions

• Solid or stranded construction
• Conductor material and plating requirement, if controlled by the drawing
• Strand construction, if controlled
• Maximum conductor resistance or controlled mm² cross-section, if applicable
• Maximum OD and OD tolerance, if controlled

Identification and application references

• Insulation colour and colour coding requirement
• Marking requirement
• Appliance internal wiring location
• The circuit requirement for engineering review, rather than a self-derived ampacity
• Drawing, BOM or equipment specification

Commercial

• Quantity and packaging or reel preference
• German destination and requested Incoterm
• Requested UL marking and compliance documents, including any RoHS / REACH documentation requirement

UL Marking and Documentation

Applicable RoHS / REACH documentation can be confirmed according to the ordered construction. CSA, FT1, VW-1, CE, dual UL/CSA and halogen-free designations are not claimed here.

Commercial, origin, compliance and transport documents are identified during quotation and confirmed according to the order. They are not supplied as a fixed package with every shipment.

Related Categories

• UL 1007 Wire
• PVC Wire
• AWM Wire