so just wondering

[jdawg 5,000+ posts]

Why cant you use regular battery wire for amp wiring. No I have never done it. An installer explained it me once but I cant remember what he told me, but I was just wondering why. Other than its really stiff and a pida to bend.

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[Chevyaudio 5,000+ posts]

Like Lead cable wire? You can, the only advantage of caraudio style wireing is the flexability it offers because of a high strand count. If the wires surface area is true to the gauge they clame it to be, then all other things being equal, either wire will work.

 

[jdawg 5,000+ posts]

heh, i thought he said something about resistence, but that was a long time ago. I bought wire one time from Napa for my batteries for my hydraulics, was supposed to be 2awg, yea right it looked like 8 when you cut the covering off.

 

[Chevyaudio 5,000+ posts]

You will get some people that think that the high dollar OFC Car Audio wire is the end all be all of wiring, but most of those cute little phrases you see printed on the pretty blue or silver jacket of your wire are mostly marketing gimics. For the everyday car audio consumer, wire is wire. Now when you get into the the high end market, there are some arguments over interconnect cables and such, but some even believe then that a cable is a cable. Hell if you wanted to, you could go to home depot, and get some of their 1/0 cable that has like 20 strands and run it in your car, but the chances of it being flexible are non-existant.

 

[jdawg 5,000+ posts]

Cool, thanks for the response. Ill just get cheap wire. This is for my POS daily driver that I am peiceing a stereo together for.

 

[Chevyaudio 5,000+ posts]

From many peoples experience the best place to get cheap cable is from a welding supply store. Welding wire, is cheaper and almost as flexable as some caraudio wire, and it is true to size unlike some audio brands (scoshe, Raptor, etc) it can be found here http://www.weldingsupply.com

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

I love my Kicker HyperFlex though //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif.

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[Chevyaudio 5,000+ posts]

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I would love to have some...for the knot tying capability.

Send me some along with a ZX2500.1, My new is going to need some more power.

 

[btnhfan 5,000+ posts]

I love my Kicker HyperFlex though //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif.
nG

It is a good one. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/yumyum.gif.0556df42231b304b9c995aefd13928a8.gif