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Wolvenar:
It pays to have electrician friends.

He has been working a job that he got some "tails" from, generally these are sold for their copper costs, but he *gifted* me a bunch for my needs.

500MCM copper cable



Here is comparison with the old wire

MadScientist267:
Nice pipes you got there. Shouldn't have any problems with the juice leaking out of them for quite some time, huh?

Just uh, one thing... Make sure you remove the tape measure before you open the main valves. ;D

Steve

Wolvenar:
I've known for some time I was under what I should have for wire feed from the battery banks. only 2 2-gauge per pole.
But I fused it accordingly and rarely ever stress the limits,
Mostly just don't have the battery capacity to do such for any length of time, and really the decided on normal loads are way under the current capacity.

This is WAY bigger than I need ( just how I like it)
Troubles I see coming though is that the lugs I will need are probably going to be way to big for the panel.

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