No no no, thanks for butting in i already have a 4 awg power wire as for the dis. block do i have to splice any wires? I dont under satnd the ground thing either hoiw do i go about by doing that do i just use the ground for the 2nd amp and connect it to the 1st amp terminal? Dop you have a chart, i have a capcitor, 1 farad rockford. oh man so many wires being connected i have the bass but i need the voice!!!!ugggh

BTW the 2nd amp is for the regular speakers so i have a 4 channel amp for those bad boys.

 

what kind of headunit? (sorry for all the q's, I need the specs first)

 

OK, I'm going to assume both amp will run via an 8AWG wire min.

You run the 4AWG (red) into a distriburion block, the back side of the block will have slots for 2-4 (8AWG (red) wires out) you will run one to each amp.

Next ground each amp using a min 8AWG (black), nothing wrong with using 4 though. You can ground each amp seperately.

The only wire that will need split is the power turn on (blue wire) most likely.

If your Sub amp has a pass through you could run that to the other amp for your rear RCA's. BTW RCA's are the only wires the amps should share directly.

 

on a side note, this is turning out to be a good thread that could be searched and referenced later. direct all noobs here.

 

Aren't you also suppose to run the wires down one side of the car like passenger side as opposed to driver side? Something like that? I remember hearing that before.

 

You are suppose to run the rca cables down one side and power cables down the other side, run the power down the side that you bring it in through the firewall, and the rca cables on the opposite side.

 

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if you put the RCA's by the 12V line, you'll get a "hummmmmmmmmm"

 

That's even easier. You would power the 2nd amp the same way you did the first amp.
Then run the remote from the first amp to the second.
Then run a set of RCA cables from the output of the first amp to the input of the second.
That's if your radio only has one (1) pre out

My radio has 3 pre outs (Sub/Front/Rear)
So I just connected the cables for the 2 subs to one amp and the cables for the other 8 speakers to the other amp

 

You will need to know how many amperes you will be drawing in order to select the right size fuses. The fuse at the battery and distribution block are not to protect the amp, they are to protect the wire.

The amps should be grounded to a point of zero voltage. Make sure you remove any paint from the surface that you are grounding the amps to. The single largest contributor of noise in a system is a bad ground.

 

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