(Part 2) Best car amplifier power & ground cables according to redditors
We found 89 Reddit comments discussing the best car amplifier power & ground cables. We ranked the 26 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
Funny you followed up when you did, I'm on Amazon right now getting all my stuff together. Here's the breakdown:
The only thing I'm debating is to pick up an amp, but I suppose that can wait until I have the bare bones setup on my roof. Any other suggestions?
The wire.
Crimping tool.
Wire terminal lugs.
Battery Terminals.
Ask you shall receive, or, let me google that for you! :) I know that feeling when you don't have an experienced person to show you the ropes. All of this I learned from a week of reading and looking at everything I could concerning the matter. Sometimes there is no-one to show you what to do and you have to figure it out. It's not easy, but it is really satisfying. EDIT man that sounded really preachy... sorry about that, came from a good place :P hehe
Here is some OFC stuff from them:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DFSVGGG/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_e6FTub07NPNKB
Here is some CCA stuff from them (CCA is not as good as OFC [4AWG CCA can handle less current than 4AWG OFC], but being 4AWG it will work for your system. It is also cheaper):
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BPKRAR0/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_Q8FTub1G8B4P2
http://www.amazon.com/Pyramid-RSW20100-Gauge-Quality-Speaker/dp/B000K8KW46/ref=sr_1_20?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1406223107&sr=1-20&keywords=speaker+wire
http://www.amazon.com/Lepai-LP-2020A-Tripath-Class-T-Amplifier/dp/B00C2P61FO/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1406223175&sr=1-2&keywords=lepai
$25 for wire and the amp.
> Also, where can I find some cheap, decent 18 gauge speaker wire online?
How cheap are we talking? This is $8.00 for 100 ft.
Lets pretend for a moment that this is the wire we are going to use (I know this is ridiculous for more than several reasons). So we have wire at $0.90/ft. We need.... ~3 miles so 5280ft x 3 x 0.90 = $14,256 in added cable cost (again these numbers like OPs are totally inaccurate)
I found an ad for 10 acres in California for $399,999 So 1 acre is assumed to be $39,999.90. (I have no Idea how reasonable this is I have only ever bought a lot in a small town)
So it turns out that land costs more than the additional cabling(of laughably made up price). So the next question is: can you fit more balloons on a plot of land than stationary units? Answer, probably. Airspace ownership is an unknown territory for me but it seems like you can fit as many balloons on your land as you can fit base stations.
So they are more productive and factoring in the cost of land may actually be more financially reasonable than you have indicated.
This all ignored maintenance costs. Why? Because average maintenance costs are UNKNOWN for the proposed system. Likely they will be more but how much more is not known.
I'm not saying you are wrong I tend to agree that short term it will be financially unrealistic but the problems this is designed to solve are beyond cost vs benefit. Those same problems may make the cost vs benefit favorable in the not so distant future.