Manufacturers saving a few cents on wire
Lately I have been looking into getting better battery recharge time performance. When I looked into the cabinet housing the converter charger I found something odd. There are 8 AWG wires about 1 ft l...
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RoyF wrote:
10-guage wire will carry 55 amps, according to the charts. You can check the output of your converter, but I would be surprised if it is rated at more than 55 amps.
Be-careful how you interpret those charts. 100% correct a 10ga wire is capable of carrying 55 amps. However the resulting heating and voltage drop make it useless at 12V to do it. Now if you use 600V to push those 55 amps the chart becomes more meaningful.
