red/black siren wire?

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Topic: red/black siren wire?

Posted By: godd dan it
Subject: red/black siren wire?
Date Posted: September 20, 2010 at 12:50 AM

Anyone know where I can buy a spool of RED / black wire which is usually for extending the wire on alarm sirens? And what gauge is it?

Thanks.

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Posted By: howie ll
Date Posted: September 20, 2010 at 3:03 AM

Speaker wire, quite a thin gauge probably 22 in US wire gauge.

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Posted By: Mark Mizenko
Date Posted: September 20, 2010 at 9:28 AM

Many distributors carry "siren" wire. But "lampcord" or "zip" cord works fine and is easier to find locally, and like Howie said 18-22 Gauge is fine.

Posted By: tedmond
Date Posted: September 20, 2010 at 8:47 PM

no need to match the colour of the wire.

often you should have a long strand from the units tach wire, siren or hood pin wire.

or buying some speaker wire will work as well.

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Posted By: chavo360
Date Posted: September 20, 2010 at 11:10 PM

https://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?Partnumber=100-055 or https://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?Partnumber=100-050

Posted By: godd dan it
Date Posted: September 21, 2010 at 6:56 PM

tedmond wrote:

no need to match the colour of the wire.

often you should have a long strand from the units tach wire, siren or hood pin wire.

or buying some speaker wire will work as well.

Most of the time I hook up the tach wire. Hood pin...not much. The siren doesnt always come with long enough wire. I dont care about it matching. The wire will be used for other things too.

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Posted By: godd dan it
Date Posted: September 21, 2010 at 6:58 PM

[QUOTE=chavo360]https://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?Partnumber=100-055 or https://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?Partnumber=100-050[/QUOTE]

Thanks. I might order from there.

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