Ok i want to add a new amp to my system and i want to see if you guys would approve of what I want to do. First off currently my system consists of a power acoustik deck, 2 rockford fosgate front speaker that are rated at 40 watts rms, a rockford fosgate 500 watt rms monoblock running my kicker cv-r 15. Soon I want to buy another rockford fosgate amp and another set of speakers for the rears but for now im gonna get the amp first. I want to buy the P400-4 amp to run the front speakers for now is that a good plan? Second my current power wire is 6 AWG what i want to do is take out the 6 AWG and replace it with a 4 AWG then have a distribution block with the old 6 AWG as outputs to run both of my amps, can I do that?
Sounds like a great set up, you can definatly run the fronts with that amp, just dont turn it up too high... wait till you get your new speakers to turn it up... as far as the wiring you have a pretty good idea of what to do.... just make sure to get corresponding fuses for your block
well what i'm thinking of doing is disconnecting the back speakers until i get new ones. also what do you mean a corresponding fuses?
what i meant by the fuses comment is that a lot of people have the misconception that the bigger the fuse the better.... could be true, but essentially they are made to blow when overpowered, more importantly made to blow INSTEAD of your expensive amplifier.... so don't put like a 100amp on your sub amp because my early experience that proven exactly what I'm telling you not to do right now
I wanted to buy that amp but i dont have the money right now it sucks but i have to save for it. Is there a different fuse for each output in the distrubution block? what do i put on the wire coming from the battery and what do i put in the distrubution block? size wise I mean
as far as fuses go, you're generally supposed to match the fuses to the fuses on your amps, for example, my 4 channel alpine has (2) 15AMP fuses so i have a 30AMP in my distribution block, now my sub amp has NO fuse, so teh fuse i have for it on my blcok is an 80AMP.... now... under the hood i have the main fuse which is a 100AMP<<<< probably overkill.... but nothing has blown yet
i wont lie.... i dont know how to determine the correct size for the fuse under the hood.... ive just gone from experience.... i used to have a kicker zx1500.1 that blew my 80AMP fuse at least once a month.... thats with a HC600 kinetik drycell AND the fuse in the distribution block.... i know it cant be good but i've been running that 100AMP under the hood for over a year now and it takes a beating pretty well from what i have now... (downgraded to a kicker zx1000.1) hopefully shriver187 will have some more useful input on this subject
i wouldnt do that... each amp needs its own fuse to rely on, so if something goes terribly wrong instead of blowing a big ass fuse, you'll blow 2 amplifier because the fuse resisted to blow and carried the pressure over to your amps, i personally would rather be replacing $5 fuses versus multi hundred dollar amps
