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Volume Controls that Accept 12 Guage??

I broke down and am buying in-wall speakers for background music driven from my main amp (maybe a new one?) for areas of the house away from my main set-up. After doing some research, I went with 12 gauge KimberKable as the wiring. Whoops!! Despite some serious research on my part I can't find in-wall volume controls that handle anything larger than 14 gauge wire. Oh the humanity !!! That seems to be a bit self defeating but I already spent the money on the wire and had it installed. Please let me save some face here. Anyone know of volume controls that would work??
ozfly

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rwwear
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Well, you could unplug the terminal strip and tack solder the wire directly to the pins.
rwwear
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Most inwall volume controls use terminal strips where there is little room between the wires and the wire can only be stripped a little over one eighth of an inch or it can short out. But if you strip the wire back enough then trim the strands to fit the terminals you can then cut the wires length down so it won't short out. Another remedy would be to make short jumpers out of 14ga. wire and use wire nuts or butt splices to attach the wire togeher.
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