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Originally Posted by thebix
Seems a little odd, one can't really have 'too large a gauge'. See, for a gauge of a wire the larger the number, the smaller the wire and less current / more voltage drop it has.
So a 22 gauge wire will not carry as much current as say 16 gauge, and has a higher voltage drop so could not drive the power amp as well. I assume that you mean the gauge number was 'higher' which is a smaller wire, and was replaced with a bigger wire, smaller 'gauge' number. Just an oddity in electric wire sizes!
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Agree probably what was done a a repair.
More or less true information but confusing and is probably what happened, However the numbering system flip flops when you add a (slash /) symbol followed by a zero meaning a 2/0 wire would be smaller than a 4/0 wire.
When a wire has the number/0 ("pronounced as-aughts") The aughts are really zeros meaning a 25/0 wire would be gigantic, again a smaller number but a larger wire, in contrast a (25 gauge) wire is pretty small.
Kinda having a similar problem with my sons boat, the sonar/gps mounted on the front of the boat crashes when we start the boat once in a while. Need to change the wiring to a smaller number gauge which means installing a larger wire.