asurjc

My clazzio seat covers arrived earlier this week and I can't wait to install them. Before I put them on, I would like to fit some heating elements to the seats so that I may have heated seats for this coming winter. Obviously, I am going to need some extra wire to do the kind of job I would like. I'm thinking I need somewhere around 14 awg wire to run the elements (70W @ 10A). Where is the best place to buy just plain old insulated stranded copper wire? I was at the home depot the other day and everything they had seemed best suited to home use (naturally). I've seen little spools of wire sold at the local advanced auto but it seems a high price for so little wire. Where do you folks get your extra accessory wire?

Murphys_Law

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walmart speaker wire

Nateson

Monoprice.com has good prices, check them out as well! 16awg 50f ~ $7.80

Murphys_Law

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do you need solid strand or braided, solid strand dosent bend well, is more expensive, and is overkill

asurjc

I guess I meant braided. Not the solid copper in the middle like you see in some houses, but the little strands that are all interwoven are what I'm looking for.

cbmikey

Just as a BTW, you should never -ever- put any solid wiring in a car. And you should never -ever- use stranded wire in your house (for wiring 120-volt stuff)

Yeah, buy your wire from Monoprice. Or if you can't wait, find a local truck and trailer shop. They often sell auto wiring real cheap. I recently got 4-100' spools of wire for $20.