Copper sleeve?
If you have a 1/0 copper cable, then swaged a dead soft copper sleeve reducer over/onto to this 1/0 copper cable to fit a #2 awg sized cable fitting, would the resistance be higher or lower? Tia, ...
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danager wrote:
In theory, after you reduce the wire, there is no reason to run the larger wire. A chain is only as strong as the weakest link. Just as the voltage drop created is negligible, so is the benefit of using the larger wire.
I have soldered this wire before. Strip it back, untwist the strands and brush on flux first. Push them together and heat it all with a torch, I use a smaller butane torch. Have two pieces of shrink tube ready to slide over the exposed area.
In this case that is not true. There won't be any additional voltage drop and you get the benefit of the low voltage drop in the 2/0 cable. This is the only way to terminate large cables in electical and electronic equipment.
