Excelene 1/0 Welding Cable

[slovell 10+ year member]

Just got some Southwire Excelene 1/0 welding cable to use as a power cable for a Zapco mono amp and I'm impressed. It's very flexible, you could tie it in a knot, all copper, and the insulation is as thick as anything else I've used. $1.80 a foot online, hard to beat that.

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[Boomin_tahoe 5,000+ posts]

I got the same stuff as my big 3....yup nice wiring for sure.

Any pics?

 

[slovell 10+ year member]

Sure, give me a few minutes.

 

[slovell 10+ year member]

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Got 25' red and 10' black for $75.50 including shipping. Delivery time was three days, shipping was $12.00

 

[macsdad 10+ year member]

Looks a lot like the wire that I got on amazon for my install, I got 25' of black and red with 5 lugs for 120, true 0/1 ofc.

 

[Papermaker85 5,000+ posts]

Just got some Southwire Excelene 1/0 welding cable to use as a power cable for a Zapco mono amp and I'm impressed. It's very flexible, you could tie it in a knot, all copper, and the insulation is as thick as anything else I've used. $1.80 a foot online, hard to beat that.

I agree I've been using it since I can remember

 

[kr15 5,000+ posts]

Keep in mind, with the welding stuff you want 2/0 (if you expect audio size 1/0)

But yes, good stuff. Along with eb flex

 

[los33 10+ year member]

Keep in mind, with the welding stuff you want 2/0 (if you expect audio size 1/0)
But yes, good stuff. Along with eb flex

You don't go by size.....
Wire strand count is what counts. Welding wire 1/0 is like car audio 2/0.

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[Mayhem]

You don't go by size.....
Wire strand count is what counts. Welding wire 1/0 is like car audio 2/0.

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other way around there guy

 

[Mayhem]

the strand count my eb 2/0 was 1000 or something like that.

but the strands themselves are much larger.

The knu 1/0 that is relatively comparable to it has 5600 strands. Very tiny strands.

 

[los33 10+ year member]

other way around there guy

How so? Car audio wire is one single line of x amount of strands.
Welding wire usually comes with 3-4 lines of x amount each..

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[los33 10+ year member]

the strand count my eb 2/0 was 1000 or something like that. but the strands themselves are much larger.

The knu 1/0 that is relatively comparable to it has 5600 strands. Very tiny strands.

Welding wire you multiply the strand count by 2 or 3 depending on how the brand strands it's wiring
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[kr15 5,000+ posts]

I wasnt necessarily referring to ampacity... more so if you had lugs/inputs/terminals etc

 

[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

How so? Car audio wire is one single line of x amount of strands.
Welding wire usually comes with 3-4 lines of x amount each..

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idk about you but welding wire strands are waaay bigger and way less than car audio strands. Strand count doesnt overcome the sheer size and surface area of the copper either.

 

[Mayhem]

How so? Car audio wire is one single line of x amount of strands.
Welding wire usually comes with 3-4 lines of x amount each..

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I think my eb flex has 20 groups of strands, each group probably with 50-80 individual strands of copper.

The knu was just 5k little strands.

The eb 2/0 is bigger than the knu 1/0.

not but much, but it is bigger.

Idk why car audio wire uses so many little strands, I feel like less but larger stands would be better.