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Originally Posted by ratdude747
Side note- I've always heard that if you nick off one or two strands (or a few for finer stranded wire, like 6 gauge battery cables) that it's OK.
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In most cases, it is not OK. The connection is already a poor conductor (relative to the rest of the wire), and adding resistance makes it worse.
It will be measurably warmer at the connection when a wire is nicked, and even mode so when strands are missing. (We're talking 6 AWG battery cables here)