I was wrong not to read all the reviews. It's not 8 AWG wire at all. When it arrived everything looked fine. It was the thickness I expected, but when I stripped it I saw that the conductor had gotten much smaller. Maybe 12 gauge or something. Since the product is labeled as expected, it seems that whoever made the coil is misleading people. Also, I now see in other reviews that it is not copper as advertised, but copper clad aluminum (CCA).
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