How to choose automotive speaker cable?
When choosing a car speaker cable, we firstly need to know the actual power of the power amplifier/ conductor material used on the cable/ the square meters of the cable and whether the cable and power amplifier are matched or not. The actual power of power amplifiers needs to be asked clearly because the product descriptions on the package of many power amplifiers are not accurate data at all. The main conductor materials used for speaker cable on the market now are OFC pure copper and copper-clad aluminum CCA materials. The best choice must be the most suitable wire, which will not waste costs and can fully meet the requirements of the equipment. The larger the cross-sectional area, the smaller the resistance, the greater the damping coefficient. Generally, we only need to choose wires that are slightly larger or just right in power than the "power amplifier". You need to simply calculate whether the wires and amplifier are compatible. For example: the international standard square number of 8# pure copper wire is 8.36 square meters, but our actual production is based on 7.5 square meters, or smaller. Then we calculate how much power amplifier 7.5 square meters of wire can drive: 7.5/8.36* 650W (previous table query) = 580W. In this way we can clearly know what kind of wire should be matched.
Haiyan ADS Special Cable Co.,Ltd is a specialist in wire and cable manufacturing. We have a lot of different sized speaker cables as the table shows below. As per customer’s requirements, we supply both quality OFC speaker cable and CCA speaker cable. The cable colors can be customized accordingly, such as black/red/white/pink/purple/brown/green/blue... we can make them transparent or frosted, it’s a little more expensive than plain ones.
Cross Section (mm2) | Conductor | Outer Diameter |
24AWG | 2C*18/0.12mm | 1.8*3.6PVC |
22AWG | 2C*18/0.15mm | 2.0*4.0PVC |
20AWG | 2C*29/0.15mm | 2.2*4.4PVC |
18AWG | 2C*46/0.12mm | 2.5*5.0PVC |
16AWG | 2C*74/0.12mm | 3.0*6.0PVC |
14AWG | 2C*118/0.12mm | 3.5*7.0PVC |
12AWG | 2C*187/0.12mm | 4.5*9.0PVC |
10AWG | 2C*297/0.12mm | 5.5*11.0PVC |