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Title: heavy buss wire - can it be too heavy?
Post by: bakerlite on May 02, 2015, 03:36:38 pm

Well - I am not a fan off waste and I have some bus wire here that I would like to use that was sent by mistake - It must be 2mm...


IS there any downside? gonna run it as a pot buss wire and maybe on a few turrets.


I am guessing it should be fine but not assuming!


cheers

Title: Re: heavy buss wire - can it be too heavy?
Post by: sluckey on May 02, 2015, 04:03:44 pm

It's fine if you can solder to it.

Title: Re: heavy buss wire - can it be too heavy?
Post by: bakerlite on May 02, 2015, 04:25:10 pm

Thanks dude
I figured as much
Time to break out the big oul flat tip :icon_biggrin:

Title: Re: heavy buss wire - can it be too heavy?
Post by: EL34 on May 02, 2015, 07:07:40 pm

For the short lug gaps I use 24 gauge wire


For the longer ground bus runs I use heavier gauge. 20 gauge works fine here


Pot bus I use 20 gauge


Any gauge will work
Larger gauges are just harder to bend and lace lugs

Title: Re: heavy buss wire - can it be too heavy?
Post by: hesamadman on May 02, 2015, 08:26:42 pm

Depending on how you lay out your board, you could use solid copper 14awg. I use it because I connect it really tight between two turrets on my preamp side of the board and then I solder leads to it. It makes for. Very clean install. I also do it because I always have 14awg wire on my van. But to each their own.

Title: Re: heavy buss wire - can it be too heavy?
Post by: PRR on May 02, 2015, 09:02:51 pm

2mm is US #12 gauge

You can only play Heavy Metal on that; nothing light.

I have used #14 (thinner) for a dozen-output distribution amp's ground bus. Between the wire and the RCA jack grounds flat to an Aluminum chassis, it gave my 45-Watt iron a work-out.

Title: Re: heavy buss wire - can it be too heavy?
Post by: Willabe on May 02, 2015, 11:24:48 pm

Quote from: PRR on May 02, 2015, 09:02:51 pm

You can only play Heavy Metal on that; nothing light.

     :laugh:

Title: Re: heavy buss wire - can it be too heavy?
Post by: jim on May 03, 2015, 06:35:53 pm

A 14 gauge copper wire soldered to the backs of your control pots will also keep pots and input jacks from rotating when they get loose.  The copper is real easy to solder if you scrape the lacquer off the back of the pots.  Jim

Title: Re: heavy buss wire - can it be too heavy?
Post by: labb on May 03, 2015, 07:37:08 pm

Makes it hard to change a pot.