Does the gauge of wire affect the speaker?

Question

I hooked up a new siren to my truck. The directions said to use 18 guage wire from the siren to the speaker, I had 14 guage wire already run from an old siren. After I hooked everything up using the old wire I get nothing from the speaker? Do I need to replace the speaker wire or is there another problem?

Answer 1

the gague of the wire should only effect the overall sound quality of the siren not make it stop working.

does the siren have a fuse?

check your earth and live.

Answer 2

run a new piece from your source to the siren it sounds like the old wire has a nick or something in it which led to it being bad. hop this helps

Answer 3

The gauge has very little effect.  The 14 gauge wire is better than the specified 18.  The lower numbers are simply larger wire.

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Answer 4

shouldnt really be a problem. if the speaker wire is old try cutting it and re stripping it to see if it works, if not just use what they reccommend. larger wires draw more power.

Answer 5

this isnt the problem. like the others said, the guage would only affect quality here. u went with a bigger guage so thats all good.