heavy buss wire - can it be too heavy?

[bakerlite]

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

[sluckey]

It's fine if you can solder to it.

[bakerlite]

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

[EL34]

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

[hesamadman]

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.

[PRR]

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.

[Willabe]

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

     

[jim]

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

[labb]

Makes it hard to change a pot.