I am purchasing a reel of 38 AWG magnet wire to use for manufacturing inductors (winding the wire around a ferrite rod). A reel of wire contains 5882.6m, and an inductor requires 846cm of wire (i.e. a reel has enough wire to make about 70 inductors). I defined a unit of measure called “Reel” in category “Length” with symbol “Reel” and conversion factor of “5,882.6”.
So far, so good, it seems, but I will need to buy other reels of wire with different lengths of wire per reel. What is the best way to handle all these different reels?
Should I create Units of Measure like Reel-5882M, Reel-100FT, Reel-2KG, etc. for all the different reels? Should I use symbol “Reel” for all these different reels, or also use different symbols? (also it seems list in the Suppliers table doesn’t format very well with a 4-character symbol).
Any suggestions?
Thanks all,
Dale