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Only disadvantage I can think of is it's not as pretty as car audio cable.

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On 10/20/2013 at 0:37 AM, KillaCam said:

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The mistake people make when buying this stuff is they think wire is wire. Or they just look at the current limit and think it'll perform for them. Not necessarily. Gotta look at the voltage drop through the wire. Just because the current limit for a given wire might be 250a doesn't mean I want to run 250a through it over a 12 foot span. Meanwhile your alt is sitting at 14v wondering what the problem is and you're dropping to 12.5 in the back wondering why your voltage sucks with your aftermarket alt.

CCA is only about 67% as conductive as OFC. Need to factor that in

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The mistake people make when buying this stuff is they think wire is wire. Or they just look at the current limit and think it'll perform for them. Not necessarily. Gotta look at the voltage drop through the wire. Just because the current limit for a given wire might be 250a doesn't mean I want to run 250a through it over a 12 foot span. Meanwhile your alt is sitting at 14v wondering what the problem is and you're dropping to 12.5 in the back wondering why your voltage sucks with your aftermarket alt.

CCA is only about 67% as conductive as OFC. Need to factor that in

Exactly

People overlook the fact that the resistance increases heat within the wire and raises a potential fire if the outer jacket melts and touches the body shorting out.

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I used radaflex and love it.

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Super flexible and reasonably priced.

Got mine from

http://www.cableyard.com/RADAFLEX-10-AWG-Black-Welding-Cable_p_12.html

Has a double jacket and fine strands to make it very flexible.

Make sure your wire has a high strand count which will help the flexibility.

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My wire had like 1200 strands. Something like that. Flexible as shit.

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On 10/20/2013 at 0:37 AM, KillaCam said:

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My wire had like 1200 strands. Something like that. Flexible as shit.

Mine shows 1580 strands.

Mines bigger then yours.......

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One thing that also should be stated is that quality car audio wire is often oversized like the sky high 2/0 is the size of welding 4/0.

That being said a lot of people's definition of "music" is a clipped 30 hz sine wave with some 80 IQ knuckle head grunting about committing crimes and his genitals.

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My wire had like 1200 strands. Something like that. Flexible as shit.

Mine shows 1580 strands.

Mines bigger then yours.......

:P

Just kidding, it's 2052 strands

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