Which did you use?

[lukevanoort]

Did you wire your 40A loads with 12AWG or 10 this year? We did 10 because the 12 isn't rated for a constant 40A. (All our wiring, including 20A loads, ended up as 10 because I forgot to bring smaller guages home when I wired the board)

[chrisinmd]

I used 10 awg mainly because we didn't have any 12 guage. I used 16 for the 20amp loads, so much easier to work with! I used 10 for everything last year, couldn't find any smaller wire.

[Andrew Blair]

10 gauge gives you some performance niceties when dealling with constant load. We used 12 on some stuff last year, and I didn't see a problem with it, but 10 makes me feel better.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

We use #10 because .001 ohm/ft. is better than .0017 ohm/ft. When needed for weight or size we would use #12, but not often.

[RbtGal1351]

Well we started with 10 AWG but then we weighed the bot and we switched to 12...

[Alex698]

On our robot some components like yours require 10 AWG for good/reliable performance. We wired our robot in 10 AWG across the board, that way we only had to buy 10 AWG, and if a connection needs to be replaced, other than the battery, everyone knows that it is 10 AWG.

[sanddrag]

If we are ever forced to run 12 instead of 10 gauge for purposes of weight, we'd have bigger weight problems than the weight of our wires.

[Team75electric]

We use 10 Awg fo rthe 409 amp fuses mainly so we dont over heat any of our CIM motors. espically on our drivetrain, b/c we have a ton of power