Ancor marine tinned battery cable ???

Tahoe Tim said:

I'm shopping around for my 2/0 cable and came across a marine grade battery cable that is tinned copper wire. It seems like a great idea and might be cheaper than welding cable. Good idea or overkill?


Ancor Marine 117902 Batt. Cable 2/0

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Hi Tahoe,

Get the voltage rating. If that is good enough, sure. But I think it would be more expensive than welding cable and not as flexible. Tinned copper won't hurt, but I don't think it is necessary. Although I use it on all my 18 awg.

Regards,

major

I'm guessing it's not as fine stranded as welding cable so it's probably not as flexible, but should have better corrosion resistance. I used similar on the AMPhibian, 4 gauge, and so far it's been fine.

tinned cables are used buy rail road , aircraft , marine ,industrial inverters and high grade industrial equipment . I look for it at the junk yards , it's cheaper at the yards ( brite copper is higher value ) . aircraft cable that is Teflon coated cannot be tinned because the temp. of Teflon well melt the tin so it will be silver coated . not very common . I've only seen it on 18 gage and smaller . It is beautiful.

local to us (reno) supplier?

Actually, it looks like it might be in stock in Sacramento. We are heading off the hill on Friday. Maybe I can talk the family to a little side trip

I like genuinedealz.com for my marine cable. I believe they have the tinned cable in 2/0. I have not been bale to beat their prices.

Thanks for the link!

I ordered 20 ft of wire and some lugs. It showed up today and is awesome wire. Very flexible and tinned at about the same price as welding cable.