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<blockquote data-quote="Canaan" data-source="post: 6513880" data-attributes="member: 566706"><p>Well, I have yet to see anyone do this so I am going to try my hand at it.</p><p></p><p>Everyone talks about wire size and how this and that wire is crap. But, just how worthless are those BS brands?</p><p></p><p>Today I took scraps from quite a few brands and did a little comparison. 6inches of each brand and weighed the amount of wire per section.</p><p></p><p>***I am not sure if all the brands are Oxygen Free Copper***</p><p></p><p>Some may be steel, CCA or other. Some brands were tinned (as you can see in pics). I had no way to test copper purity, this is simply measuring mass of the 'stuff' under the casing.</p><p></p><p>This should give a little idea of just how much you are getting per foot. In the charts, I converted mass per 6inches to mass per foot.</p><p></p><p>Here are the brands I tested:</p><p></p><p>4ga</p><p></p><p>AudioPipe</p><p></p><p>Stinger HPM</p><p></p><p>Hooker WG4</p><p></p><p>Qpower</p><p></p><p>Scosche</p><p></p><p>Xscorpion</p><p></p><p>Scosche (6ga)</p><p></p><p>8ga</p><p></p><p>Xscorpion</p><p></p><p>Scosche EFX2</p><p></p><p>Pheonix Gold Inner Flow (7ga)</p><p></p><p>Old yellow color Scosche</p><p></p><p>AudioPipe</p><p></p><p>Stinger Custom Pro</p><p></p><p>American Accessory</p><p></p><p>So...on with the pics!</p><p></p><p><img src="http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/4/603819.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>6" of each 4ga wire, list above is in order top to bottom.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/4/603820.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Cross section of 4ga wire, listed right to left</p><p></p><p><img src="http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/4/603821.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Wires split and copper pulled out of casing.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/4/603822.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>This is the scale used. It is calibrated to Pennyweight (dwt, used for measuring gold weight at the shop), I converted to grams for the charts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Canaan, post: 6513880, member: 566706"] Well, I have yet to see anyone do this so I am going to try my hand at it. Everyone talks about wire size and how this and that wire is crap. But, just how worthless are those BS brands? Today I took scraps from quite a few brands and did a little comparison. 6inches of each brand and weighed the amount of wire per section. ***I am not sure if all the brands are Oxygen Free Copper*** Some may be steel, CCA or other. Some brands were tinned (as you can see in pics). I had no way to test copper purity, this is simply measuring mass of the 'stuff' under the casing. This should give a little idea of just how much you are getting per foot. In the charts, I converted mass per 6inches to mass per foot. Here are the brands I tested: 4ga AudioPipe Stinger HPM Hooker WG4 Qpower Scosche Xscorpion Scosche (6ga) 8ga Xscorpion Scosche EFX2 Pheonix Gold Inner Flow (7ga) Old yellow color Scosche AudioPipe Stinger Custom Pro American Accessory So...on with the pics! [IMG]http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/4/603819.jpg[/IMG] 6" of each 4ga wire, list above is in order top to bottom. [IMG]http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/4/603820.jpg[/IMG] Cross section of 4ga wire, listed right to left [IMG]http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/4/603821.jpg[/IMG] Wires split and copper pulled out of casing. [IMG]http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/4/603822.jpg[/IMG] This is the scale used. It is calibrated to Pennyweight (dwt, used for measuring gold weight at the shop), I converted to grams for the charts. [/QUOTE]
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