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Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 10:04 pm 
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Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 10:14 pm 
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No, I am dead serious, I had 2 RF Punch 40's (2x20wrms) running of 1ga cable with 5 Autosound 2000 .12F stiffening caps (that was all that was available back then).
Worked a treat, very little voltage drop....

 

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Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 5:01 pm 
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Ok well the time has come that i MUST do the wiring tomorrow. As now i have no amp and sub amp working as the wires that i joined them to has "fused together". So yea kinda dangerous at the moment seems it keeps tripping the fuse :S . Im just after a cheap way to make my "mono have its full potential of power and same for rear speakers amp. I've now changed my mono to a West Coast Orion 800W amp that sounds f**kn better than the kenwood 1000w, but same problem not enough power. The rear speakers amp is just a crappy powervox so called 4 channel 1400w(yet states thats it only 50wrms, so figure that lol), but im hoping to be upgrading it soon. So now all i want is to know what guage wire exactly i need and if i should split the cable or run 2 cables from the battery?
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Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 5:12 pm 
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single 4 gauge, fuse close to battery (very important), distribution block in the boot.

 

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single 4 gauge, fuse close to battery (very important), distribution block in the boot.


whats the distribution block?
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Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 5:20 pm 
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single 4 gauge, fuse close to battery (very important), distribution block in the boot.


whats the distribution block?


http://tinyurl.com/33u4tmd

 

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Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 5:21 pm 
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picture says a thousand words!
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1 cable in, 2 (or more) cables out.

 

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 Post subject: Re: Sub Amp Not Enough Power?
Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 5:39 pm 
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thats nifty krisisdog... How do you do that?

Or better still you go for a fused one that way (say you run 2x 8gauges out of it) then each is fused to 50 amps rather than 110 so if that piece of 8 gauge shorts out it blows only its 50 amp fuse, and that 50 will blow before it gets too hot, whereas the 110amp main fuse will take much longer to blow... Its what us electricians call discrimination...

http://www.google.com/products/catalog? ... CUQ8gIwAw#

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everyone is now using it LOL

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Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 5:55 pm 
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thats nifty krisisdog... How do you do that?


Its been done a few times on here lately by some other members.. google it lol.

Only problem with fused distros is that they can be pretty exxy, when I was looking for a 0g in block with fuses, they were ridiculously priced. It was far cheaper to buy a separate fuse box for each cable, so I did! 0g into a block (0g fused in engine bay, ~200amp), a 4g and an 8g out of the distro, each fused a few inches out of the block.

 

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Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 6:00 pm 
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hey krisisdog

off topic question how do you do the build thread in you sig as i can only work out how to put a url in

i want mine to come up as Bear's Build Thread

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Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 6:23 pm 
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Not sure if it'll come out properly here but anyway:

[url=http://whatever it is.com /] then you call it whatever you want in here


then finish it with [/url] straight after it.

 

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Not sure if it'll come out properly here but anyway:

[url=http://whatever it is.com /] then you call it whatever you want in here


then finish it with [/url] straight after it.

thanx for that krisisdog

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Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 10:33 pm 
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I got a stinger 2 4gauge into 4 8gauge if anyone needs one. $15.
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Well all is done now. Went and got 4 guage wiring and one of them stinger splitter things. All is a treat now much much better sound quality too, so the amp must have been really underpowered. Ill post some pics up soon
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