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<blockquote data-quote="helotaxi" data-source="post: 2914580" data-attributes="member: 550915">So does the idea that you have the entire cross sectional area of the chassis available as a conducting path for a ground, but people still stick doggedly to that one.The fact for both is that the steel in the chassis is not uniform and as such you get areas of&nbsp; high and low (relative) resistance.&nbsp; The majority of the current flows in the low resistance areas and these would act much like your power wire in regards to the field generated (slightly diffused).&nbsp; Best case these areas are 10x more resistive than copper and are nowhere near the 10x the cross sectional area of the power wire that you run making the idea that you need to keep your section of low resistance copper ground wire as short as possible totally laughable since the resistance of a few inches of large diameter copper wire is negligible compared to the several feet of high resistance autobody sheetmetal.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="helotaxi, post: 2914580, member: 550915"] So does the idea that you have the entire cross sectional area of the chassis available as a conducting path for a ground, but people still stick doggedly to that one. The fact for both is that the steel in the chassis is not uniform and as such you get areas of high and low (relative) resistance. The majority of the current flows in the low resistance areas and these would act much like your power wire in regards to the field generated (slightly diffused). Best case these areas are 10x more resistive than copper and are nowhere near the 10x the cross sectional area of the power wire that you run making the idea that you need to keep your section of low resistance copper ground wire as short as possible totally laughable since the resistance of a few inches of large diameter copper wire is negligible compared to the several feet of high resistance autobody sheetmetal. [/QUOTE]

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