Whoops... that link starts out with a bald-faced lie.
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FYI, since the conductive properties of silver are about double that of copper, an 8 AWG pure silver conductor will closely approximate the properties of 6 AWG copper. In practical terms, that means you can reduce those nine 12 gauge silver wires to six.
Pure silver is, at best, 5%-8% lower in impedance than annealed copper. For some backup, read
this (thanks Google)
The story suggests you use 16ga. silver. Even giving silver 8% over copper for it's conductive properties, that puts it at about 15.5AWG.
Meaning? 14ga. lamp cord is still more conductive (and less brittle, cheaper, comes right off the roll ready to use, shall I go on?)
Bren R.
