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Message: <blockquote data-quote="xaero133" data-source="post: 6142667" data-attributes="member: 602218"><p>ok so the major debate here is house's AC current VS your cars DC current, in a house there is anywhere from 110 to 120 volts  and about 15 to 20 amps, the way electricity works this amperage only needs like 14 gauge wire to work fine with no problems, now in your car your running around 14 volts and (if you got some big speakers) about 300+ amps while running, now with amperage that high if you are to use that same 14 gauge wire it would get very hot due to the resistance that the 300+ amps would be seeing, now to keep that from happing you have to use a larger gauge wire, like 8 gauge plus (i am running 1/0 gauge in my setup) so what im trying to get acrossed here is that the more amps you are running the more wire you need to move it, hope this helps ya out</p></blockquote><p></p>

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