so Lets say i wanna make a modification to my computer PSU (blah blah you should never open a up a pc psu the caps are high amerage and can kill you) i know that and i am very careful, plus ive done stuff like this before. This is a question more about my lack of knowledge on the importanse of the thickness of wires.
So lets say this modification needs you to cut some thick wires inside. But what if to replace those thick wires you only have thinner wires.
Is it safe to replace thick wires with thinner ones inside a PC PSU.
What i am doing here btw is disconnecting the power wires from the power switch in the back and wiring them to a much cooler looking power switch in the fromt of the case. I did this successfully with my old PSU which had 2 thick wires and 2 thin wires leading off the original power switch. But i recentley got a new PSU for this (upgrading my LGA775 qx9650 with a new motherboard with DDR3 and a better PSU in my some-what customised server case from 1989)
so unlike my old PSU with 2 thick and 2 thin wires from the power switch this new one had all 4 wires thick and the extention to the new psu power button that i have is the old 2 thick/ 2 thin wires.
i am just wondering if the thickness of the wires in the part i am talking about really matters or ifthe thin wires might burn up if too much amperage is sent trough it.
the electricity part is something i am not quite good at.
and if it matters this PSU will be plugged into a protective powerstip which is supposed to protect the equipment from spikes and brounouts stuf like that.
so i would appreciate some advice or some useful info or a lesson in electricity lol.
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