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Originally Posted by ScottBrownstein
...and #8 will be just fine for 200 watts of solar!
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For solar I agree 8 is plenty but I was thinking that inverters. In my old rig I wired 2000 watt pure sine wave with 2 ga as the 4 ga got too warm to touch when the mircowave was running. One big or multiple small ones will start to task that 8 ga and sooner or later. Depending upon lay out WHICH I KNOW IS TOUGHER with my new toy hauler than for some lay outs, I for instance want at least 4 ga going to a 1000 watt inverter and more depending on intended load and run length.
In fact I just calculated the load created by my two small inverters ( a 200 watt and a 400 watt) and was wondering why nothing had melted when I ran both of those, knowing that they should have heavier wire.
Thankfully I had not tasked them to their full load or the resulting 48 amps would have been a problem. So far only popped one fuse with the temp set up. Hey a guy has to have his Direct TV.