Wire gauge guidance with respect to bluetooth/amplifier/speaker project

Thread Starter

kmeyer

Joined Oct 10, 2019
10
Hi all,
I'm going to attempt to re-use some speakers from an old stereo and connect a Bluetooth board and an amplifier board and power supply. I'd like to buy some wire for this and future projects, but i don't know which kind of wire to buy. I was looking at something like this box'o'wires.
Which gauge should I get? Can I use the same gauge wire for connecting power and carrying audio signal?
Thanks.
 

ci139

Joined Jul 11, 2016
1,898
the wire gauge depends also on it's length coz of the reactive(inductive) + active voltage drop
but usually it's not the wire but terminals' connection points that have worse resistance (partly because the different metals form thermo-pairs that in turn boost the chemical corrosion there -- gold plated contact are relatively affordable -- when you can allocate -- a whole-sale store willing to deal with you . . . back at prev. decade the plug that cost 1.5$ cent at primary w/s-store cost 2.5$ at secondary ... but then at the promotion!!-price it cost 37$ of "normal" 47$ at the component shop not primarily selling these items ... and it was not gold plated antenna adapter 3k% margin yay . . . there likey was some 10 re-sellers in that chain at the time)
 
Top