welding supply store

[xluben 10+ year member]

i just realized there's a welding supply store near me. do you think they'll carry quality 1/0 wire at a reasonable price?

what kind of strand count should i be looking to get? if they have some for under $2 a foot i'll probably pick some up and re-wire my car sooner than i planned //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

they were closed when i drove past tonight, but i'll try and stop in tomorrow before they close up.

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[skmfkr 5,000+ posts]

enough strands so that its flexible

 

[saywhat? 5,000+ posts]

4000+ atleast.....but copper prices went up, as well as anything with it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif id go with Knu Wires honestly....5200 strands....the kicker wire only ahs something like 4800

 

[Chevyaudio 5,000+ posts]

Dont worry about strand count as long as its flexable enough when you play with it...on the other hand check out the cross sectional area to assure its 1/0.

 

[xluben 10+ year member]

woo hoo!

just went there today and he has spools of 1/0 for $2/foot and 2/0 for $2.25/foot

i think i'll be doing a run of to my amp and big three with 2/0. i didn't ask if he had any ring terminals, though.

now i need to get a couple ANL fuse holders that can accept 2/0 wire.

will this work:

http://www.millionbuy.com/scopwfhi.html

looks like it just accepts ring terminals, so 2/0 shouldn't be a problem:

http://scosche.com/efx.aspx?CategoryID=56&ItemID=PWFHI

anyone know of cheaper ones?

 

[xluben 10+ year member]

also, when i went in i asked if he had any "zero gauge power wire" he said he'd never heard of it before, and asked what zero gauge was. i told him it was just big power wire. then he said, " i have one nought and two nought"

isn't that wierd that he'd never heard of it called zero gauge? i've only heard it called "one nought" a couple times before. i guess it's just different terminology in the welding industry.

also, he said it was 30 gauge strands, so how many strands would that be in 1/0 guage?

EDIT: using values i found in a table online:

1/0AWG: 0.3248" dia

30AWG: 0.01" dia

so the 1/0 would be about 32.5 times the width of the 30AWG. that only comes out to about 830 strands by my calculation.

did i do something wrong? it seemed pretty flexible and looked to have about the same number of strands as the tsunami 1/0 i have.

 

[reneeb7363 10+ year member]

ot... or ought... as in a rifle..... not nought ... they don't say the zero--- that is how its referenced in the electrical industry. fyi is all.

 

[xluben 10+ year member]

oops, my bad. i guess the one-ought just combined into one word when he was saying it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Chevyaudio 5,000+ posts]

yeah...Zero gauge doesnt exist...Its 1/ought 2/ought 3/ought.

 

[bballrrt06 10+ year member]

http://www.bcae1.com

gota the wire section on there