Pat Farrell;185064 Wrote: > > > 12 gauge is good for 20 amps. > What speakers need 20 amps? what speakers can even live with 20 amps of > > current? >
Pat, The issue is resistance of the wire run, not current-carrying capacity. Roger Russell states that the resistance of the wire run should be no more than 5% of the nominal speaker impedance to have no audible effect. For an 8-ohm speaker, a 50' run of 16-gauge wire is acceptable. For a 2-ohm speaker, a 12' run of 16-gauge wire is the limit. See Russell's article (http://www.roger-russell.com/wire/wire.htm) for a table of maximum wire lengths vs. wire gauge and speaker impedance. -- Ron Olsen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ron Olsen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9233 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33218 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
