What gauge is this wire?

[MegaHurtz 10+ year member]

http://www.audiooutfitter.com/store/PWRED500.html

I was thinking about ordering a spool of that and a couple others to keep in stock in my garage shop for future products. I want to try and find out what size the wire is first though, I would like to get 16ga if possible. 18ga I suppose would work, but 16 is that much better. Does anybody know?

Also, if you know where I can get some good (really really flexible) 16ga primary wire in diff colors for a price like that, lemme know.

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[LuNaTiC 10+ year member]

Weldingsupply.com

Not sure if you can get 'fancy' wires in all kinds of crazy techno colors there, But I know there cheap and actually label the gauge wire you're buying //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[PhatTonyDeMarco 5,000+ posts]

It looks pretty small, couldnt be larger than 18 guage or so, I wouldnt buy it..

 

[LuNaTiC 10+ year member]

Actually now that I look at it. Are the "weld cables" in there what someone would use for power wire?

Just wanna make sure before I buy some.

/Threadjack

EDIT: I'm reffering to weldingsupply.com

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Actually now that I look at it. Are the "weld cables" in there what someone would use for power wire?
Just wanna make sure before I buy some.

/Threadjack

Yes...I'm using 2awg welding cable as my main power feed to the amplifiers, though I won't do business with Welding Supply after what they did //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif I ended up buying my wire off Ebay...

The spools listed would be good for remote turn on leads, but that's about it...maybe speaker wire over extremely short runs/low power.

 

[PhatTonyDeMarco 5,000+ posts]

Yes...I'm using 2awg welding cable as my main power feed to the amplifiers, though I won't do business with Welding Supply after what they did //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif I ended up buying my wire off Ebay...
The spools listed would be good for remote turn on leads, but that's about it...maybe speaker wire over extremely short runs/low power.

What did Welding Supply do? Did they hurt you buddy?

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

What did Welding Supply do? Did they hurt you buddy?

Taking a $60 order and never contacting me again isn't a good way to do business, in my book //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

And what little "customer service" they did have was pretty pathetic.

 

[PhatTonyDeMarco 5,000+ posts]

Taking a $60 order and never contacting me again isn't a good way to do business, in my book //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif
And what little "customer service" they did have was pretty pathetic.

Psshhh.. Welders, and their God Damn religion //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/waycrazy.gif.f4a380c3f94043939fd369defd9e6be2.gif

 

[req 5,000+ posts]

anyone know where to get spools of 16awg wire?

i migth be able to get it thru circuit city via metra... but i dunno.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Spools of 16awg?

I'd say Lowe's, they sell 16awg stranded THHN for pretty cheap. I'm using it for my remote turn on lead now, and it works fine. May not be quite as flexible as some of the other stuff, but once it's installed, who cares?

 

[skmfkr 5,000+ posts]

wal mart is 50ft...i got my 18awg wire from there 100ft...unless your talking like 250-500ft

 

[MegaHurtz 10+ year member]

Yes...I'm using 2awg welding cable as my main power feed to the amplifiers, though I won't do business with Welding Supply after what they did //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif I ended up buying my wire off Ebay...
The spools listed would be good for remote turn on leads, but that's about it...maybe speaker wire over extremely short runs/low power.

I'm looking to use it to wire other stuff, DVD player, monitors, satellite radio tuner, that kinda thing. There are just many situation when having a bunch of primary wire would come in handy, but I want the flexy stuff, but I'm also not sure what gauge would be good enough for me.