what gauge wire for modern esc/motor

[lmw94002]

What gauge wire is everyone currently using for brushless ESCs/Motors? Any specific suggestions?

I was looking to wire up some leads and realized my 25yo spools from my brushed days are pretty much gone. And then I thought, maybe I should be using different wire now...

[jwscab]

they are typically 16 or 14 or 12AWG. In some cases, they are oddball and end up like 13 AWG. I suspect you would be safe with 12AWG for pretty much anything, although really high power stuff might use 10AWG on the battery leads.

[abailey21]

Depending on your motor and car weight for me

I run 17.5 on a really light car so I run 16ga on my B6. My rere cars are a touch heavier and I run 13 on them.

I get all my wire from TQ, sensor cables too....fer real I should take up stock in that company.

Honestly with the power draw, and if you're not a worlds qualifier level of racer with 7827812627819 degrees of boost and timing and all that crap, 16ga is probably fine. I personally use it because its smaller and easier to hide but I'm one of those douchy wire nazi's too

I run all my cars on blinky with stock timing, mostly Tekin ESC's and E-co Power green 17.5's from A Main because I know I'm not gonna beat some wanna be pro racer...I'm there to have fun

I do run 12-13 on the batteries though

[RC10th]

I run mod so everything is 12awg, if I were running a stock class 14 awg