Cant get 8g to fit push terminals on sub

[JB513 10+ year member]

Hey guy i cant seem to get my 8g wire to fit in my push terminals so i was wondering if it ok that a little bit of the wire is not totally inside the terminal. And this is the only wire i have besides 0g which i know wont ever fit lol. And no i dont want to buy 10 or 12g because im an impatient **** and want bass NOW!!

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[Buck 5,000+ posts]

8g is big for a sub. Just hold your horses and get some 10 or 12g.

 

[Pioneer~Saturn 5,000+ posts]

You can trim off a few strands untill it fits and it'll do fine

 

[x2o 10+ year member]

It's fine if it isn't all in. Or you can just cut a bit off the end, I did that to my speaker wire when I had to get two 10gauge's into the puish terminals.

Your fine, just make sure the way the wire stick out doesn't allow the + and the - to touch, or you'll have a short.

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[sholiz 10+ year member]

cut your 3/4 inch off or whatever length you wanna expose then keep running your knife in circles cutting a few strands down at a time till you get it a LITTLE smaller then twist it up good put it in terminal

i made 8g fit in W7's ... it's possible for just bout anything lol

 

[JB513 10+ year member]

Ah i probably should have said im trying to fit two runs of 8g into one terminal. I tried twisting them together but no luck. I may just put one in through the front and other through the back?? Would that work?

 

[BobbyDD 10+ year member]

Ah i probably should have said im trying to fit two runs of 8g into one terminal. I tried twisting them together but no luck. I may just put one in through the front and other through the back?? Would that work?

As long as it's getting a good connection it'll work fine.

 

[JB513 10+ year member]

Alright i'm sure that will be the easiest way to go and to make sure all the wire is inside the terminal. Thanks.

 

[n2audio 5,000+ posts]

do you realize that at 1 ohm and a length of 10' you'd need to be running more than 3000w to push the limits of 8 ga spkr wire?

With 2 8's (5 ga) it's around 12000.

 

[x2o 10+ year member]

do you realize that at 1 ohm and a length of 10' you'd need to be running more than 3000w to push the limits of 8 ga spkr wire? With 2 8's (5 ga) it's around 12000.

Hes probably in the same situation I am, trying to wire VC's in series or parallel which require two wires in the push terminals. I highly doubt he's just running double 8's to the amp, the would be senseless //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

And for the record, trimming a few strands off a wire to get it to fit in a terminal won't affect its current carrying capacity in the slightest.

 

[Rashaddd 5,000+ posts]

And for the record, trimming a few strands off a wire to get it to fit in a terminal won't affect its current carrying capacity in the slightest.

truth

unless you trim 90% of the wire away...that half inch or whatever it is will have no problem carrying the extra load, and as a piece, that half inch will probably still have more capacity than the other 3-10ft you've got of the full gauge

 

[ultimate157 5,000+ posts]

8 gauge to coils is plain uesless.

 

[jco1385 5,000+ posts]

i have 10ga from amp to sub.

doesn't help but doesnt hurt. and it has the wow factor.

people are like "dammmm you need huge *** cables for everything" and i'm like "mmm hmm..."

 

[JB513 10+ year member]

Hes probably in the same situation I am, trying to wire VC's in series or parallel which require two wires in the push terminals. I highly doubt he's just running double 8's to the amp, the would be senseless //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif

This is what i am trying to do. And for thoses of you that say its stupid to run that big of wire STFU i said its all i have no money for bigger wire and im impatient as **** right now. Spent all this time settin this shit up and was simply just having trouble mi\aking the wires fit in there.