Platinum or Copper G-wires?

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Sep 6, 2003

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Platinum or Copper G-wires?

I was wondering which do you guys think is more of a quality grounding wire? platinum or copper? Becasue this shop i go to manufacturers Platinum Grounding Kits and i was wondering has anyone heard of this and if so do you think the Platinum Ground Kit is good?

Sep 6, 2003

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i bet a platinum wire is pretty expensive

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platinum has 6 times the resistivity of copper. more = worse.

source: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu...les/rstiv.html

so get some thick copper wire and save a couple $

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i'm sure it's not really platinum, probably just silver plated copper.

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well he is selling it for 75$$ and seems kinda cheap to me for platinum but i dunno. Damm it ...i gues si will ask him some questions about it tomrorrow!!!