1G Wire Gauge for battery relocation?

[laserspeeddemon]

I am trying to build my own battery relocation kit. Now I know this has been beat to death, but my question is not about battery relocation but how to understand reading the gauge of the device accepting a wire. I know what 2 gauge is and 4 gauges, etc. but what is 0/1 or 0/2 gauge?

I want to buy a battery terminal that has 2, 2 gauge outputs and at least 1, 8 gauge output. This is the one I am looking at right now.

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Xscorpion BT0288G Gold-Plated 0/2/4/8 Gauge Battery Terminal (226200710796) | eBay

• Gold-Plated Battery Terminal
• One 0/2 gauge output
• One 2/4 gauge output
• Two 8 gauge inputs

 

[hhuricane]

American wire gauge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This has a good description.

 

[rts91tsi]

In the wire sizes 0/1 - 0/4, the 0 represents a term called aught, which is another type of gauging scale. This scale rates wire size by 0 and the 1,2,3, or 4 represent the number of zeros in the wire size Usually it is represented as so 1/0, instead of 0/1. 1 aught wire is the next largest wire size up from 1 AWG or 1 gauge, then 2 aught (00), 3 aught (000), and finally 4 aught (0000) being the largest gauge in the aught classification of wire.

 

[snowborder714]

From the looks of that, the product has one input that will accept either 0 or 2 gauge, and then another input that will accept either 2 or 4 gauge wire. Just a way of typing it to show you can use multiple different wire sizes.

The aught wires that the above poster is referring to are typically written as 1/0, 2/0, etc. There's no way that little distribution block would accept 2/0 wire (if for some reason it was written backwards). While he is correct in what was typed, the information does not apply to that part.

 

[laserspeeddemon]

OK next question.

Where do I buy QUALITY wire. The biggest I can find at local stores is 4 gauge. I found this on eBay, but I kind of what to stay away from something that can burn my car to the ground that sells on eBay from China.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-AWG-GAUGE..._0&vxp=mtr&hash=item336fe5cc43#ht_2466wt_1396

 

[snowborder714]

My brother has this stuff in his can and it's been working out great. Their wire runs pretty big, so if you check the specs on their 4 gauge wire, it really is about the size of 2 or 0 gauge wire. It seemed they underestimated by about one size in our findings.
Knukonceptz product detail for KOLOSSUS FLEKS KABLE 4 GAUGE BLACK POWER/GROUND WIRE

You can search around for estimated ID's of stranded wire to find some measurements.

 

[laserspeeddemon]

Well since I have two days off I didn't want to waste them waiting for the wires to ship so I headed around town to find 2 AWG wire. I called all auto sound, audio, security, video, etc. stores. None had them. I went to best buy and a tractor supply store; nothing.

Finally hit up Lowes and they had it. It's SUPER rigid, but it makes for chasing it through the car EXTREMELY easy. And it bends like soft metal so I can keep it tight around the turns. This will be interesting.

Shop Southwire 2/0 AWG 1' Stranded THHN Wire at Lowes.com

 

[Hal]

Welding supply shops are excellent sources for flexible heavy gauge wire.