0pyders

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Hey smart people. Tell me why it wouldn't be a good idea to have an alternator pigtail that has a lower gauge wire size than the 2 factory wires that are in my harness (the brown and red one).

Wouldn't I still be ok? I'm thinking that if the wire is just bigger it's not going to be the weak link in the chain. Like a reversed fusible link lol.

red rock

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Water flows through a big pipe easier than a small pipe, same with electrons.

0pyders

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I understand that but the number of electrons flowing should be the same even if bigger wire is used, right?

I just want to know if the red and brown wires that go to my alternator will get damaged if the pigtail I bought that goes to the alternator has a thicker gauge of wire.

red rock

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Your not going to damage the alternator, but what are you hooking up, and why wouldn't you want to go to the battery?

0pyders

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I'm just trying to replace the connector that goes to my alternator because It's smashed up. The new connector I got has thicker wire than the old one.

red rock

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Then no, that won't hurt anything, in fact, it will be better. Just a note, solder joint with heat shrink is the best connection.

aremy10

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when in doubt you can go bigger, just not smaller. No problems with using that pigtail. Red rock is right

0pyders

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Cool glad that works. And yeah I'm going to solder/ heat shrink them.

Thank you for the help.

abray1

I have a CS144 that puts out around 260 or so and I moved my battery to the trunk. I have an electrical block on the passenger fender and I ran car audio wire #4 from the alt lug to the block with a copper lug at the alt. It works off of surface area and the good audio wire has thousands of small copper strands that works perfectly. If a wire is getting warm then go bigger and use better wire. I ran 2 ought back to the battery. I can jump the car from the front or back. All of the car audio stuff is very high quality.