old school hcca wire size?
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Topic: old school hcca wire size?
Posted By: volsbanshee
Subject: old school hcca wire size?
Date Posted: April 10, 2009 at 10:48 AM
I have a old school Orion 225 HCCA that I am going to load 1.3ohms bridged. My question is does the hot wire need to be replaced with a larger gage wire. The wire that came on it looks to be a 10 gage wire. Should I desolder this from the board and put in a 8 gage? Thanks.
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Posted By: haemphyst
Date Posted: April 10, 2009 at 11:19 AM
I did it on mine, (actually, IIRC, I used a #6) and it made a HUGE difference in how warm the amp ran. I recommend it, but be careful, it takes quite a bit of heat to solder a #8 to a circuit board, and you DO risk burning surrounding circuitry.
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