12gauge big enough for 500 watts?

[adrian1281 10+ year member]

amp is a memphis 16-mc500d, sub is a jl 13w6v2. is 12gauge wiring large enough for the 500 watts?

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[300m_on_xxx 10+ year member]

If i was you i'll put 8gauge

 

[DFW40 10+ year member]

Power wire or the speaker wires??

 

[tRiGgEr 5,000+ posts]

12g power or speaker? It will probably be fine on 12g power. But why not use 8g. It's not much more expensive.

 

[3.5Max6spd 10+ year member]

i ran 4gauge to that amp, although 8ga is sufficient

 

[profilepower]

12ga. laughss i wouldnt waste my time but continious the answer is no!..peak maybe not for along time thou.

be a big boy go 10 ga. minium....

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Anything over 12ga for speaker wiring is serious overkill...unless you're running really long lengths of it.

 

[ttsquared100 10+ year member]

4ga power and ground...12ga speaker wire...the bigger the wire the more power you can send through them...i tested my 1500w amp on 8ga HAHA you shoulda seen the inline fuse holder after a day...

 

[UndercoverPunk 5,000+ posts]

if you plan on keeping the car you might as well do 1/0 the first time. if you get welding cable it's not too horribly expensive.

 

[tRiGgEr 5,000+ posts]

12ga. laughss i wouldnt waste my time but continious the answer is no!..peak maybe not for along time thou.be a big boy go 10 ga. minium....

Why is the 12guage wire laughing?

Peak maybe. What the heck does that mean?

 

[DFW40 10+ year member]

don't waste your time TRIGGER

 

[ANeonRider 10+ year member]

Here is a table to follow:

http://www.the12volt.com/info/recwirsz.asp

Not even worth your time to run 12 gauge, especially when its not enough anyways.

 

[profilepower]

i was talking 10ga power wire.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

In that case, 10awg isn't even enough...

 

[profilepower]

peaking..means the max watts...not average....

when you run every amp you arent drawing its max current at half volume...can u understand??????