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Choke Wire Size

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The choke was never hooked up in my T. What size wire should I use? 14 guage?
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Re: Choke Wire Size

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Mine is 18 ga - should be plenty according to Painless. ;)

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Re: Choke Wire Size

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14 will be plenty, 16 is pretty common, Mark
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Re: Choke Wire Size

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Thanks guys!
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Re: Choke Wire Size

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I measured the resistance of the choke to be 10 ohms on my Demon carburetor. Therefore
using 13 volts, I get 1.3 amps of current.
13volts/10ohms=1.3 amps

Just to be on the conservative side, I used 2 amps on the table and went straight across.
Eighteen gauge wire should carry the current up to 25 feet. But I didn't buy wire for every
gauge. The smallest I have is 16 gauge, so that's what I used.
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