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[adio25 10+ year member]

Since my alternator is extremely hard to get to, could I cut the original wire off of the alt and run it into a fuse holder and then run to the battery with a bigger gauge wire? So basically what I am asking is if its worth while to have like 1-2ft of stock 6 gauge wire with the rest being 0 gauge to the battery? Will the 6 gauge be to big of a bottleneck?

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[joker4096 10+ year member]

stop being lazy and do it right man.

 

[gnatnoop 10+ year member]

this^^

 

[Blue Fury 10+ year member]

this^^

You haven't been here long enough for posts like this haha

OP, thatd would be pretty useless. Your 6 gauge wire for ~110 amps still would limit your stereo (safety-wise) to 110 amps instead of, say, the 1/0g wire for 300a.

 

[gnatnoop 10+ year member]

you have been here 1 month longer than me.. not to mention i say "this" because i got it from "bodybuilding.com" and ive been a member there for like 4 years...

 

[DonH 5,000+ posts]

ok look.....throwing a fuse inbetween the two wire sizes defeats the purpose of having the larger wire... Your pretty much decreasing the amount of energy allowed to pass through the bigger wire... so basically dont do it! waste of time! do it right the first time so there is no second time!