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Will 16 Gauge Work?


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it's an easy question....The wire chart says <150w if it is 16 gauge @2ohm, but wire charts are known to give a ton of leeway and I'm not positive if since it is splitting the power to be 100w per speaker it will be considered 2 or 4 ohm...

A vitrolic, megalomaniacal sadistic psychopath.

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it's always best to "Go Big". in other words 16 is ok but if you can go 12. I am running 75 watts to each of my sets of components and i am using 12ga wire just to make sure it gets a nice clean signal.

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Well if it carries enough energy I sort of have to keep it (16awg) because I just got a job yesterday and it will be 3 weeks until my first paycheck and I'm already 200 in dept....so I can't really spend for a while... and I won't upgrade the speakers on my Jeep anytime soon so as long as it will carry all of the wattage cleanly with that amount of power, I will be happy.... I know bigger is usually better but I'd rather keep my quality 16 gauge instead of some cheap ass 12 gauge, and I'm sick of only 2 speakers ...

A vitrolic, megalomaniacal sadistic psychopath.

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