Electricial Wires

[G60michael]

Can someone please help me ASAP I need to know will a 10Amp electirial Wire be good and think enough to be able to do what swerve mentions here


" Mike,

just been looking back at your photos on that other forum, gotta say compared to what it was, Grunty really does look great, WELL DONE. You really should edit your first posts and put them in.

Now its been a while since I have seen a generator, but I'm sure they dont need a 12v source to them to make it work. However as this was converted, a alternator will need a 12v ignition cct "+"ve to the alternator. In this case they have piggy backed of the coil ignition 12v "+"ve to the external regulator. Personally I would re-run the cable around under the grill with the standard loom and remove the 12v wire from the coil.

From the ignition 12v fuses on teh fuse box, forward to front right headlight, down under grill and up to the regulator.

Steve "

[Swerve]

Mike,

Hard to say as we really dont know what is going through it. Can you tell what size cable was already in use from the coil to regulator ?

Either way I would use at least a 4mm electricial cable which can take 15Amps.

Steve

[G60michael]

thanks Steve It must be 15Amp as its the same thickness as the roll I just purchased from SCA and its 15Amp Wire.

I have since connected it up to the Regulator and taped it all the way along the Loom down along the grill up the to fuse panel box. All I need to know is which part of the fuse box I connect it to. I got it routed and got Terminals ready to be fitted to the fuse panel.

Cheers mike

[Esteban]

Either way I would use at least a 4mm electricial cable which can take 15Amps.
Steve

Steve, is this 4 square mm? Not familiar with how wires are sold over there. If it's in fact 4 sq mm, it will correspond to a AWG 11, so it will be fine.

The regulator on an alternator draws very little power. Any ignition controlled fuse (switch on) will serve for this purpose.

[Swerve]

Either way I would use at least a 4mm electricial cable which can take 15Amps.
Steve

Steve, is this 4 square mm? Not familiar with how wires are sold over there. If it's in fact 4 sq mm, it will correspond to a AWG 11, so it will be fine.

The regulator on an alternator draws very little power. Any ignition controlled fuse (switch on) will serve for this purpose.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/NARVA-4MM-SI ... _44wt_1157

[Esteban]

Steve, the picture you posted only brings more questions.

How can someone refer to 4mm (1.85mm2)??

I found this on another forum in Australia (dated 2008):

Hi folks, we have a really screwed up cable size labelling system here, there is no mandatory automotive cable size labelling in Australia so you will get some crap stuff if you don’t know what to look for.

The use of the label Auto as in 4mm auto is a bastedised wiring size and you need to look at the label on a roll of cable with this size being used.

Good companies will usually label the roll with both the auto size and the actual cross sectional area size, which is the real size of the copper in the cable while the auto size, as pointed out earlier, is the cross sectional area of both the copper and the plastic insulation.

These are the automotive cable sizes that are readily available in Australia.

These sizes may vary slight between different cable manufactures

4mm Auto = 1.85mm2

5mm Auto = 2.9mm2

6mm Auto = 4.58mm2

6mm Marine = 6mm2

8B&S = 7.9mm2

10mm = 10mm2

6B&S = 13.7mm2

16mm = 16mm2

4B&S = 20.25mm2

3B&S = 25.7mm2

2B&S = 32.15mm2

1B&S = 39.55mm2

0B&S = 49.45mm2

Note, B&S, AWG and G are all the same size, EG 6B&S = 6AWG = 6 Guage
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Really confusing...

[ben23f]

i think the size in brackets it the cross section size of the metal inside, so 1.85mm^2 of copper. The 4mm its outside diameter.