WONDERFUL! Aluminum Chinese Wire

It's all about Cost aka $$$$$$

I am sure they said "Made in China" somewhere on the package BEFORE you purchased them.......



Caution---CHINA bashing thread ahead!!!

CKNSLS wrote:
I am sure they said "Made in China" somewhere on the package BEFORE you purchased them.......



Caution---CHINA bashing thread ahead!!!

You are absolutely correct...

My error...

Shudda opted for the ones manufactured in Furgueson

The "10 gauge" MC4 pigtails on my 230w solar panel turned out to be aluminum wire. I found out when I cut the ends off to connect them to some #8 wire I have.

I wonder if the 25 ft extensions you can get for those solar panel MC4s are also aluminum. If so, you need to "adjust" your voltage drop calculations to al vs cu.

Could it be that they are tinned copper to help resist marine corrosion??

I thought aluminum alloys were actually moving closer to the usability of copper.
Is it really about cheap or is China pushing the technology forward?

Besides Americans shop primarily on price so what do you expect?
Please post when the item fails due to the aluminum wire.

To say China is pushing the technology envelope on this forum is next to blasphemous!

Selling CCA as copper is like selling a paper straw for a fuel line. This is definitely fraud, and can seriously hurt/kill.

It would be great if aluminum alloys getting closer, but AFIAK, they still require one gauge more wire than copper... and one has to take extreme care at connections, or else the wires will corrode and the connection catches fire.

If aluminum wires did work, houses wouldn't be targets for copper thieves.

My '70s-era house has all aluminum wiring. It hasn't burned down yet. But I also have a hard time with remodeling projects and replacing switches and fixtures.

I'm also pretty sure my '94 and '96 Caddy must have had some (not all) aluminum wiring in places. I can't prove it, but I would come across what appeared to be solid aluminum wires in odd places.

smkettner wrote:
I thought aluminum alloys were actually moving closer to the usability of copper.
Is it really about cheap or is China pushing the technology forward?

Besides Americans shop primarily on price so what do you expect?
Please post when the item fails due to the aluminum wire.

How about out-of-the-box?

No contact. No lamp. Scraped it. Light. Yanked the entension hurled it.