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      02-12-2014, 11:20 PM   #1192
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Electrically it's a matter of degrees.
If you beef up 80% of the length of the wire it will be an 80% improvement (in rough principle, not having defined what's "beef up".)

For instance, 6 feet of wire at 0.1Ω/ft is 0.6Ω.
If you double up 5 feet of that, it's 5' at 0.05Ω/ft + 1' at 0.1Ω/ft = 0.35 Ω total.

If you run 5 amps through the first example you lose 3 V.
If you run 5 amps through the second example you only lose 1.75 V.
If you doubled up the entire 6' run you would only lose 1.5 V.
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