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What about silver wire [message #4053 is a reply to message #4052]

Sat, 20 January 2007 22:05

colinhester
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Why not go straight 20ga single strand sivler wire with Teflon jacket? Forty feet of wire will run about $80. Terminate with your favotite connector and be done with it. Also, keep +/- wires spaced, since air is an almost ideal dielectric.

20ga wire will handle about 1.2A of current. Your 45 running 2 watts into 8 ohms will push about 0.5A, even at 4 ohms the current load is only 0.7A. You have plenty of margin.

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