Big 3 Wire size

[SpareParts]

Tried searching but nothing much came up so im doing it wrong I guess.
Anyway, I want to upgrade my power and ground wires. Pretty much all of them.
I have about 10 feet of 1in wide ground strap so that part is pretty covered I think.
What is the suggested wire size for the power and ground wires?

 

[wjburken]

Tried searching but nothing much came up so im doing it wrong I guess.
Anyway, I want to upgrade my power and ground wires. Pretty much all of them.
I have about 10 feet of 1in wide ground strap so that part is pretty covered I think.
What is the suggested wire size for the power and ground wires?

2 GA or 1/0 is what I’ve seen people mostly use. Others might have other thoughts.

 

[homesick]

I've used 6 ga a few times, from the battery to the amp, with no troubles. 2 ga strikes me as overkill, but I could be wrong; and it sure couldn't hurt.

joe

 

[wjburken]

I've used 6 ga a few times, from the battery to the amp, with no troubles. 2 ga strikes me as overkill, but I could be wrong; and it sure couldn't hurt.

joe

Most of the guys if seen doing the upgrade were running big amps so that might explain some things.

 

[SpareParts]

I did a 1998 K2500 suburban a few years ago using 2/0 welding cable. I had about 20ft sitting around for a few years doing nothing so it only cost me Lugs to solder on.
It was overkill I think, Now that I have to buy wire im not sure if i wanna pay for 20ft of 2/0 welding cable of it's overkill.
I'm not going to have anything requiring high amp's, Maybe a hidden winch, but that's a whole different matter.

 

[homesick]

Most of the guys if seen doing the upgrade were running big amps so that might explain some things.

6 ga is pretty big, but I wasn't arguing.

joe

 

[wjburken]

6 ga is pretty big, but I wasn't arguing.

joe

Didn’t take it as an argument at all.

6 ga should handle 95% of what people are doing.

 

[homesick]

Didn’t take it as an argument at all.

6 ga should handle 95% of what people are doing.

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A chart was a great idea.

joe