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RE: home depot thermostat wire

Posted by Duster (M) on June 29, 2016 at 11:38:53

In Reply to: home depot thermostat wire posted by BRab on June 29, 2016 at 08:36:59:

Since you are now using a 4-conductor cable, the wires should be cross-connected (star quad), if so, the inductance has been lowered with better noise rejection vs. a 2-conductor 18 AWG twisted pair, and the cable cross section has been doubled to 15 AWG aggregate gauge, which is still a moderate gauge cable for a speaker cable application. Based on my experience of a similar solid core copper hardware store product, you can certainly find higher performance via entry-level audiophile speaker cables such as AudioQuest solid core speaker cable products, but what you currently have is a better option than typical stranded zip cord speaker wire, IME.

Make sure the conductors with the same polarity are opposed to each other within the cable bundle (cross-connected) rather than side-by-side (see image above of a stranded conductor star quad cable wired cross-connected).

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