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Can I splice different gauge wire together?

3938 Views 3 Replies 3 Participants Last post by rboster, Mar 23, 2015

pilotguy123

Discussion Starter · Mar 23, 2015 (Edited)

I have about 120 feet of 12 AWG running from my Denon out to my back porch, everything has been drywalled over, I now want to move the speakers about 10 feet farther away so they broadcast more into the back yard vs the porch and all I have laying around is 14 AWG. My question is can I just splice (I plan on using a waterproof wire nut) 10 feet of 14 AWG get the the length or should I spend the $ and buy another spool of 12 AWG and splice that in?

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Bill Fitzmaurice

· #2 · Mar 23, 2015

You can, the 10 foot length of 14ga won't make that much difference, adding only about 0.02 ohms additional DCR compared to 12 ga,

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pilotguy123

Discussion Starter · #3 · Mar 23, 2015

Thanks,
Didn't think it would make that big of a difference just wanted to make sure.

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rboster

· #4 · Mar 23, 2015

This question came up earlier this month. Using the search engine, title search only and the search word, wire:

http://www.avsforum.com/forum/89-speakers/1927625-combine-different-gauges-speaker-wire-series.html

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