Power conditioner wire gauge? Serious issue

jumia,

Too me, because I am deep minded that the power feeding our systems is so very important, I would want heavier gauge wire inside the power conditioner. 16 gauge is pretty weak. Not sure what is customary but a power conditioner that handles power amps or large drawing current should have at least 12 gauge up front handling the incoming power.

Perhaps branching out from there to lesser power draw components like Dac's etc.  smaller gauge would be ok.

Now, I don't have any hi-tech education supporting this just my years of experience.

ozzy

@carlsbad   Thank you for your opinion.  I will continue to post mine.

No doubt you will explain why it is necessary to spend money on larger power cords than are required to carry the specified current.

What we need is a power conditioner with 4 gauge to compensate for all the low gauge wire used before. 

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Mazian

ozzy

Kudos for understanding my concern.

It is true the devices will continue to work despite varying gauge wire but that's not the point here.

Will use of a 14 or 16 gauge wire within a power conditioner lessen the benefit when a 10 or 12 gauge wire is used elsewhere???

I think this issue has profound consequences and should be taken very seriously buy all those who install 10 gauge dedicated circuits in their systems.

This week I will be contacting the two Power conditioning companies that I own components from to find out exactly what they do and will share when I learn.