5+ GA Wire?

[Sailor Dog 10+ year member]

Hey guys. Recently, I purchased some wire from a friend who retired from car audio and had some (what he claims to be) 1/0ga wire running for his power wire. Well, I haven't paid for it yet, but I didn't think it looked like 1/0ga wire. After looking at it, it reads '5+ GA High Current Oxygen-Free wire". I've never heard of 5ga wire, much less 5+ga wire - what does this mean? Will this be enough to run 1000w through from my amp for my power? How does the oxygen-free part play a role? Thanks for the input, fellas.

The red one's the wire. Beside it are, from top to bottom:

A Sharpie Magnum marker

The wire

A typical outlet cable

A typical mechanical pencil

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[itsblown 10+ year member]

Im guesing 5g means its 5 gage wiere and ofc means oxygen free copper. so it is 100% copper and not the new copper clad aluminum cheaper stuff

 

[UnderFire 10+ year member]

Was it Scosche?

I have both 5 and 4 gauge mid-90's Scosche wire. The 5 gauge is actually comparable to other companies' 4 gauge wire, while Schoches' 4 gauge at the time was huge, almost the size of 2 gauge.

 

[TheUnderFighter 10+ year member]

Meh.... never heard of it. Assuming it's actually Oxygen Free Copper and 5+ GA is close to 4 gauge, then it should be fine for 1kW.

 

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And I wouldn't pay more than $25 for it. Not much of a friend if he's charging more than that haha.

 

[Sailor Dog 10+ year member]

Was it Scosche?
I have both 5 and 4 gauge mid-90's Scosche wire. The 5 gauge is actually comparable to other companies' 4 gauge wire, while Schoches' 4 gauge at the time was huge, almost the size of 2 gauge.

Yeah, it's made by Scosche. But it's not too big, I could post a picture if you want a size comparison. Then maybe you guys could help me on the judgement..

 

[UnderFire 10+ year member]

Yeah, it's made by Scosche. But it's not too big, I could post a picture if you want a size comparison. Then maybe you guys could help me on the judgement..

I have some downstairs, it is exactly the same size as my Rockford and Cadence 4 gauge wire.

 

[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

Ive used the Scosche 5awg wire in the passed and it was just as thick as my Stinger Custom Pro 4awg as well.

 

[Sailor Dog 10+ year member]

I have some downstairs, it is exactly the same size as my Rockford and Cadence 4 gauge wire.

Well, if it's 4ga, it should suit me fine, I'm only running about 950w RMS through it down the length of my car. I posted a picture in case you wanted to see some size relevance.

 

[UnderFire 10+ year member]

Well, if it's 4ga, it should suit me fine, I'm only running about 950w RMS through it down the length of my car. I posted a picture in case you wanted to see some size relevance.

Yea, it should be fine, I use all Scosche wire in my system, it's good stuff.

 

[Chappie 10+ year member]

Yea, it should be fine, I use all Scosche wire in my system, it's good stuff.

x2, all my wires are Scosche and as far as wire goes, I'm happy with it.

 

[Imtjnotu 5,000+ posts]

just buy 0 gauge from knu........

 

[mylows10 5,000+ posts]

all my 0 gauge is scosche too ,i run the 6200 strand 0 gauge ,not made any more tho,but i still have about 20 ft left,going in the truck on fri.