Originally posted by Champagne96GL:
I bought mine in pieces but I got my pwr wire from praxair a welding supplier in town, got 20 feet of number 4 (4 awg) for 16$ only thing is the cables are black but i don't see em and it looks nicer in the engine bay, some guy at a stereo shop told me they don't flow current like regular car audio power wire but he was just a sales man.. dunno what he knows, but I have no problems running my 2 eclipse 33230s off this cable with the gains cranked all the way.
anyway point being get the cheapest but best for the application
Its always been my understanding that they will work fine... for a while. The difference being that the car audio stuff is more resistant to corrosion. So the end of your cable at the battery will most likely corrode faster, resulting in a loss of amperage, and perhaps an overheating problem in the future.
I've heard of some people using welding cable, but preparing the ends with some sort of corrosion resistant goop.
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