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Is using speaker wire(12awg) as ground wire bad?
Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 7:37 pm
by MrSo0h0o
hey guys ive come to the point where my ground wire is too short from the point i am grounding to and i dont have any power wire left. Would it be bad to use 12awg wire from speaker wire as my ground wire?
Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 9:15 pm
by loudwagon15s
YES if you ran out of wire, then try grounding in a new location or just hit up your local audio shop for a bit of wire,
Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:19 pm
by JeremyC
Wire is wire, as long as it can carry enough current.
Just remember power in a DC current flows from ground to positive. So your ground wire is just as important as your hot.
Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 4:52 am
by Ryan from Ohio
No that wont work.
Im assuming its for that Cadence amp.
As advised, hit your local shop for a foot or two of wire.
Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 5:19 am
by MrSo0h0o
Well its actually for my main ground. I have a 4 gauge wire for my ground that is going to my eclipse 4 ch amp and an 8 gauge wire from the eclipse's ground terminal to the cadence's ground terminal. The 4 gauge is too short and it keeps coming out of the terminal when I hit a hard bump or my chassis flexes too much. I may try and organize my wiring a little better over the weekend.
Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 5:48 am
by Ryan from Ohio
Ya you cant substitute 4Ga with 12Ga... lol No way.
Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 6:21 am
by MrSo0h0o
Ryan from Ohio wrote:Ya you cant substitute 4Ga with 12Ga... lol No way.
actually i think its 8 gauge wire.. i checked my order history from knukonceptz lol..
Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 6:38 am
by falkenbd
MrSo0h0o wrote:Well its actually for my main ground. I have a 4 gauge wire for my ground that is going to my eclipse 4 ch amp and an 8 gauge wire from the eclipse's ground terminal to the cadence's ground terminal. The 4 gauge is too short and it keeps coming out of the terminal when I hit a hard bump or my chassis flexes too much. I may try and organize my wiring a little better over the weekend.
Get some decent wire and a distro block while you are at it.
Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 6:44 am
by MrSo0h0o
falkenbd wrote:Get some decent wire and a distro block while you are at it.
Yea i was thinking about just placing another order with knukonceptz for some power wire and a ground distro block.
Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 6:59 am
by Ryan from Ohio
MrSo0h0o wrote:actually i think its 8 gauge wire.. i checked my order history from knukonceptz lol..
Even that.
The fact is electric will take the path of least resistance. I
If you tried putting 4 pieces of speaker wire together it may be a sizable amount overall. Issue is my above sentence. Theres going to be one that has elss resistance and its going to take all the current. Its inevitable.