A whole lot of 1/0 gauge wire

[jockhater2 10+ year member]

1/0 gauge

OFC for power

CCA for ground.

I am adding 2 more runs of power in my car. and 2 more runs of ground.

So 30ish feet of power

and 30ish feet of ground

As long as its in good shape I don't care if uses or new.

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[KyleBechtold 5,000+ posts]

going to point out an error.. CCA for ground.. electricity is a circuit.. any resistance is shared.. so if you do ofc for power do ofc for ground..

if you do cca for ground you won't gain anything doing just the power in ofc and you will spend more money..

 

[mylows10 5,000+ posts]

do it all ofc

 

[jockhater2 10+ year member]

Ok. Advice taken! I already have 25ft feet of CCA. So I am going to use it regardless.

But. Andy (argent audio. The guy selling the RCA's)

He said he could sell me 70ft total. *35 power/35 ground. Of Stingers OFC for 250. That comes out to to $3.65 a foot.

 

[jockhater2 10+ year member]

going to point out an error.. CCA for ground.. electricity is a circuit.. any resistance is shared.. so if you do ofc for power do ofc for ground..
if you do cca for ground you won't gain anything doing just the power in ofc and you will spend more money..

BTW. Can you explain further? or give me an article?

I just want to fully understand.

Hey mylows. Is what he said. Why competition vehicles run 1 ground for every 1 run of power?

 

[infamous_e46 5,000+ posts]

i have a few runs of pure copper welding cable

 

[jockhater2 10+ year member]

i have a few runs of pure copper welding cable

What size? how long?

 

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do it all ofc

hows $3.65 a foot for stinger HPM.

 

[KyleBechtold 5,000+ posts]

BTW. Can you explain further? or give me an article?
I just want to fully understand.

Hey mylows. Is what he said. Why competition vehicles run 1 ground for every 1 run of power?

the one for one is not what I was talking about.. I was saying it is pointless to use a better power wire than what your ground wire is.. so if you are set on cca for the ground no reason to do ofc for the power

I don't have an article but it is easy to see it is a circuit.. if you don't believe me pull your ground up and the amp will stop working.. your power and grounds should be the same size and quality

 

[jockhater2 10+ year member]

the one for one is not what I was talking about.. I was saying it is pointless to use a better power wire than what your ground wire is.. so if you are set on cca for the ground no reason to do ofc for the power

Oh ok.

THey really are equally important?

 

[mylows10 5,000+ posts]

i've been told that you run the same amount of power and ground to keep the current flow unrestricted at any point ,not sure if that is true ,but i do know that it works well. and NO CCA if you are using ofc,one or the other not both.and it is worth spending the extra for ofc ,the current flows better

 

[Kangaroux 5,000+ posts]

Your power and ground wires are equally as important. If you're gonna use OFC for one and you use CCA for the other you are just wasting $. You might as well just do CCA for both then.

 

[jockhater2 10+ year member]

i've been told that you run the same amount of power and ground to keep the current flow unrestricted at any point ,not sure if that is true ,but i do know that it works well. and NO CCA if you are using ofc,one or the other not both.and it is worth spending the extra for ofc ,the current flows better

But I already bought some CCA. How can 1 run of CCA hurt?

 

[cyn 10+ year member]

dude... they are explaining it to you... just run either or.. cca or ofc, don't combine them together. the flow of resistance will be off mixing them.

 

[infamous_e46 5,000+ posts]

2 15 ft runs and a 19 footer

 

[jockhater2 10+ year member]

dude... they are explaining it to you... just run either or.. cca or ofc, don't combine them together. the flow of resistance will be off mixing them.

F me. I will contact mchman about a return.