Replacing wire

[baylora]

I’m cleaning up a couple of 2amp Hunter Original that has a rough life at an outdoor bar. It’s been cleaned, stripped, painted and about to get it’s switching housing screwed back on. But First, I need to replace the fan lead/light lead with something longer to go through the shaft of the fan. (It’s tough life began with the ding dong that installed it). Okay, it’s 18 AWG wire. All the 18 AWG wire I’ve found is rated for automotive use.

Is wire just wire? Can I use this stuff for the fan? 14 AWG is the smallest allowed for home wiring so i can understand why anything smaller wouldn’t be marketed for common electrical applications, but this is going inside a fan.

Any thoughts?

[John Shelley]

The automotive 18 guage will be fine for this applicaion rember the fan only pulls 2 amps #18 is good for about 7-8, better would be electric motor lead wire but that is hard to find outside of motor repair shops.