Everyone seems a little caught up on wire gauge at the moment, a japanese website did a small test:
http://www.kimihiko-yano.net/RadioCo...ossMeasure.htm
The speaker cable they use is about 11AWG though.
I make looms for race bikes and there is a massive difference in current capacity for different qualities of the same gauge wire.
You need high quality, silicon sheathed wire. Castle creations wire seems okay.
My twelves have 14gauge and the pods dont get bound up, and I don't need to worry about losses in the wires. Unless you are overweight or have a problem routing the wires why worry?
It was interesting that an earlier post claimed longer run times with smaller wire, I can only imagine that the wires greater resistance is reducing the current to the motor, that seems to ignore greater losses in the wires - how about turning down the punch control/current limiter or running a softer wind!?
-Scott
PS this will translate
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish