Power conditioner wire gauge? Serious issue

@allanblissett I just did the math.  I find 18 milliohms difference to be closer to accurate.  I think 31 mOhms would be the total R for 10' of 12 gauge. 

My math is based on this chart:

Kenjit by the numbers:

1 - Kenjit brings up non-issue

2 - Thoughtful helpful people waste their time writing thorough explanations why it’s not an issue.

3 - Kenjit pretends he can’t read

Is this a kenjit thread? 

I swear to my dark goddess, my last job was doing cloud IT architecture for government and the powers-that-be insisted we use caches. In these specific cases they didn’t do anything but take up 100’s of gigabytes of RAM which got paid to a cloud provider, but they were convinced they needed them. They were leftovers from when they were trying to fix other problems. Now they were just expensive holes soaking up taxpayer dollars, but they loved those caches.

What we need is a power conditioner with 4 gauge to compensate for all the low gauge wire used before. 

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If you run 6 gauge to a sub panel for my stereo should you use 6 gauge for the power conditioner???

Seems to me that Power conditioners should be using 10 gauge wire internally. Dedicated outlets use 10 gauge wire so shouldn't the power conditioner outlets use them?

Man I did all that typing and math and you completely ignored me. :D

Why would I use 10 gauge when it's so hard to work with, for 2' of distance?

OP: I think you need to stop thinking of 10 gauge as some magical ideal. It is not. It’s just better by immeasurably small amounts per foot and most 120V outlets will accept it. 

At 10 Amps of draw, the hypothetical 30’ 10 gauge wire would drop 0.6V vs. the 0.2V of the 6’ power cord. Tiny amounts relative to 120V incoming AC.

FEW people recommend 10 gauge wire from the panel.  Depends on the distance.

The main issue is resistance (R) per foot.  Here's the difference, per foot, at 72 degrees:

10:  0.00102 Ohms / foot

12: 0.00162 Ohms / foot

14:  0.00258 Ohms / foot

So running a 30' 10 gauge wire would be:

30 x 2 x 0.00102 = 0.0612 Ohms

Now, for the 6' of 12 gauge you want to run between the wall and your amp:

6 x 2 x 0.00162 =  0.0194

So the 6' of power cord is 1/3rd of the entire resistance. 

PS - We use 2x the distance because both the hot and neutral count.