Lights dimming badly!!

[VKCOMMO]

Yeah, It costs next to nothing.. Just before you buy the wire, get some rope or something and measure out how much youll need (run the rope loosely along the path you need it to go, remember, its better to have more than less) and then go buy some wire..

For wire, Ive found that Precision Car Audio at Penrith is pretty cheap/lenient on wire, I think last time I was there I asked for 2m of 8awg and got about 5m for the price of 2..

They also have a pack of 4x 4awg gold plated ring terminals for about $10 (there the ones i used for my ground upgrade, seem like a good terminal, see pic below)..

 

[acarmody]

My local audio places want about $15/m for 4AWG, rip-off bastards. Then I discovered my local Supercheap has it for a few dollars a metre, LOL.

VKCOMMO, did you use a blowtorch or crimp?

EDIT: I remember once I wanted some 8AWG for sub speaker wire (looks better), but my local WOW Sight and Sound wanted ~$8/m, so I went inside and bought a 8AWG DNA wiring kit for $20 on special, LOL, retards.

 

[VKCOMMO]

My local audio places want about $15/m for 4AWG, rip-off bastards. Then I discovered my local Supercheap has it for a few dollars a metre, LOL.

VKCOMMO, did you use a blowtorch or crimp?

EDIT: I remember once I wanted some 8AWG for sub speaker wire (looks better), but my local WOW Sight and Sound wanted ~$8/m, so I went inside and bought a 8AWG DNA wiring kit for $20 on special, LOL, retards.

$15/m is a rip.. I think I picked up a 4 channel complete 4awg wiring kit for about $50-$60..

These terminals are crimp, I need to invest in a blowtorch to connect my sub's amp (whole setup is designed to be removable in a matter of seconds, so it all goes through an anderson plug, but with crimping with a vice it just fell out after a while..

 

[acarmody]

I'm going to see if any welding stores sell small amounts of welders flex. Figure its only the engine bay, who cares what it looks like.

Besides my car is black and welders flex is black insulated, so see, I'm colour coordinating

 

[VKCOMMO]

Welding flex is 00awg isnt it?

 

[sweefu]

Welding flex is 00awg isnt it?

There is no general size for welder's flex, comes in many sizes though its not measured in American Wire Gauge, rather measured in cross sectional area or mm2
I did my big 3 upgrade in ~70mm2 welders flex, which works out between 2/0 and 3/0

 

[Nic92]

There is no general size for welder's flex, comes in many sizes though its not measured in American Wire Gauge, rather measured in cross sectional area or mm2
I did my big 3 upgrade in ~70mm2 welders flex, which works out between 2/0 and 3/0

may i ask,what is a welder's flex?

 

[kcpwns]

Thick as copper cable. Welders use it obviously haha.

 

[Pickle']

Capacitors are a gimmick. Upgrade the big 3 check your earth and go from there.

How do you figure.... i had massive dimming hooked up a 2 farad cap and it stopped it completely.. please explain?

 

[kcpwns]

Bandaid solution mate, what are you running?