i am wiring a small kenwood 70W amp into my firebird to power a pathetic 150W sub. i need to know what to wire the always hot power line to the amp to. where should it connect, somewhere near the fusebox?

please help me get my pathtic seystem going, i bow befor those of you with a real car audio system

 

Run a large gage wire right from the Batt. with a fuse close to the Batt.

 

see, thats exactly what i dont want to do. oh welll. it will be good sop i don't have to rewire if i upgrade aps latter, thanx

 

you dont really need that large of a guage wire for what you have, maybe 12 at most a 10. but if you plan on upgrading, it wouldnt hurt to put an 8 or 4 guage in there.

 

yeah, but damn.... that stuff is expensive!
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yeah, but if you plan on doing it later anyways, you will save some time and alittle money.

if you dont plan on doing it later, go with the small stuff.

 

you will never NEVER regret running 4 gauge in your car, if i was smarter, i would have ran two strings of it.

for the record, i will never, and have never ran an amplifier off of less than 8 gauge.


adam

 

looks like 4 guage it is, damn, this is going to be spendy. considering the rest of my seystem was free or reduced price (used from friends or family) this is going to be the most spendy part

 

Don’t go cheep on the power wire. A little known fact is that to small a power wire can shorten the life of your Amp. The internal power supplies don’t like low voltage situations. I would run 10 gage if I wasn’t planning on upgrading, 8 or 4 gage if I was.