anyone ever use welding.....

[michaellane 5,000+ posts]

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[SicAudio 5,000+ posts]

welding wire (if you get good quality wire) will work as well or better than standard audio power cable and most times costs alot less.

aluminum wire ratings are lower ampacity compared to the same guage copper wire but it does not get as hot as fast either. almost all new construction in homes ect have stranded aluminum transformer runs to the main breaker panel then solid copper from there.

As a car audio wholesaler, if I didnt get wire so cheap I would only use welding wire in my personal installs, my brother is a welder and I have seen how many volts and amps that, that wire carries over very long distances. far more than most car audio applications.

 

[Shinju 10+ year member]

welding wire (if you get good quality wire) will work as well or better than standard audio power cable and most times costs alot less.aluminum wire ratings are lower ampacity compared to the same guage copper wire but it does not get as hot as fast either. almost all new construction in homes ect have stranded aluminum transformer runs to the main breaker panel then solid copper from there.

As a car audio wholesaler, if I didnt get wire so cheap I would only use welding wire in my personal installs, my brother is a welder and I have seen how many volts and amps that, that wire carries over very long distances. far more than most car audio applications.

Yep, Arc Welding takes some serious juice.

 

[Notloud00 10+ year member]

some use it, no its not better... it has a lower strand count and is harder to work with. with the prices of Knu KLM, your better off just using it

no, my welding wire was the same price and it rapes the klm i have. they are about equally as flexible but the klm is to big for pretty much every 1/0 input and the shell is retarded hard.

 

[michaellane 5,000+ posts]

if I didnt get wire so cheap I would only use welding wire in my personal installs, my brother is a welder and I have seen how many volts and amps that, that wire carries over very long distances. far more than most car audio applications.

this is why i got it...thanks a lot man!!!!!

 

[DDeitz 10+ year member]

does it really matter at 16 runs //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[michaellane 5,000+ posts]

lol nope it doesnt

 

[~DIGITAL~BASS~ 10+ year member]

some use it, no its not better... it has a lower strand count and is harder to work with. with the prices of Knu KLM, your better off just using it

Strand count doesnt mean much. The hgiher the strand count just means it will be more flexible. What really matters is the gauge of the strands. A wire with more strand count and lower gauge size could potential not be as good as say wire with lower strand count but a bigger gauge size for each strand.

 

[csu87 10+ year member]

go to a welding shop and you can get it really cheap. I got 1/0 flex a prene cable for like $30 for 30ft. it works just as good, if not better then my old rockford 1/0 wire.

 

[blackman 10+ year member]

i use welding wire for everything..... 100% copper, excelon or however u spell it. its the best of the best and cheap as ****

 

[microhaxo 10+ year member]

I use only welding cable..

 

[Jeepjones85 10+ year member]

Strand count doesn't mean much. The higher the strand count just means it will be more flexible. What really matters is the gauge of the strands. A wire with more strand count and lower gauge size could potential not be as good as say wire with lower strand count but a bigger gauge size for each strand.

I have to disagree, higher strand is better because there is more surface area

for the electrons to flow on, where one big fat solid wire does not.

 

[Ignatowski 5,000+ posts]

nothing wrong with using welding cable for car audio power wire

its better than half the name brand car audio shit on the market...

check out flex orange from weldingsupply.com..... I used the 1/0 cable and it was

more flexable and had more wire in it than Stinger

 

[93dakota 10+ year member]

i only use welding cable and that info on strand count is inaccurate.all cable is not the same.its always 100% copper which is better than cca cable.price is better too.
i notice no differance but i use 4/0 so im sure it kills ANY 1/0 cable

Where does this misconception that Car audio wire companies dont use pure copper. I dont know of any company that does not use pure oxygen free copper that is tinned unless it is alum cable. as for size of the wire, most welding cable uses the AWG standard on wire size while car audio companies have there own sizing standards. Look at Knu's wire there 1/0 is actually 2/0 in AWG while i am pretty sure that welding cable is based on AWG standards. The difference is not that big and really wont change much but if you are trying to get every bit out of the wire then it matters.

 

[Lakota 5,000+ posts]

All of the welding wire that I have ran I really liked, it was flexible enough. But, I'm using actual audio wire in my new truck, I want it to look pretty.