bblue02

hey everyone, got a question about amps and what not, here it is:

I already have an amp for my subs with all the wires and everything hooked up, im wanting to add another amp for my door speakers. can I just tap into the power wire from amp 1 and run it to amp 2 or will I need a distribution block?? its ran with an 8 gauge wire..

RobertLariat4x4

Preferably get a distro block for power and either get another ground distro block or ground em separately. You can use the same remote turn on and tie them together. Also, with an 8g power wire you might wanna upgrade to a 4 if your running two amps depending on how much power you are needing, you might be giving your amps enough juice.

bblue02

sweet man I just wanted another opinion, I plan on getting a 4 ga wire and a distro block then running my 8ga wire to the two amps. and grounding seperatly. just wanted to make sure the distribution block was nessacary.

mustangGT90210

Go to walmart for the dual amp add on wiring kit. It's 20 bucks for the block, another power wire, another ground wire, and something else, seems like a good deal to me

bblue02

didnt know Walmart had that, gonna go check into it now! thanks!

raduque

I use a dist block for both my power and grounds.

mustangGT90210

No problem! Comes with everything you need to add an amp, up to like 1200 watts on each I want to say

BURNSY

I would suggest using a relay for the remote turn on lead from your deck. I have seen those leads go bad from tapping too many things off of it.

RobertLariat4x4

just using the the remote for two amps, shouldn't need a relay no problems with mine and i have it on 2 amps

bblue02

I didn't use a relay and it's fine, even if it does go bad you could always run it to an ACC fuse in the fuse box...