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<blockquote data-quote="sumone" data-source="post: 404872" data-attributes="member: 551481"><p>yup; I went ahead and just took it to a shop to install. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif</p><p></p><p>psych!</p><p></p><p>hell yea I did it! I realize how overprotective I've been; When I went ot do it, I went to a parking lot where people practice driving just so there's people around if anything happened to me. I even called my brother before I was gonna touch the battery and told him to call 911 if I hadn't called him back in 5 minutes. lol. I'm looking for some sparks and stuff to fly, trying not to touch the body of the car at all, etc...</p><p></p><p>However, when I went to connect the power wire to the battery, low and behold, the ring terminal is too small. Good thing I bought that 4ga kit (even though my power wire is 8ga). That terminal was big enough, but it took a lot of crimping to get the wire to stay. (yes, using my hand-crimper only able to go up to 10ga).</p><p></p><p>This connection was just a test to see if I could get the amp run; so after playing with settings a while (which I gotta learn how to set gains correctly), with both doors open, and the radio on, I disconnected everything and tried start my car....no go. No one in the parking lot would give me a jump so I had to call my brother back (who was at school and wouldn't be home til a couple hours) and ask him to give me a jump. So I ended up walking home and when my brother got home, we went over and I performed the jump. So it's all good right now.</p><p></p><p>I'm glad I did this stuff, cause it's given me a lot of confidence on working on my car; first time I did a jump I was all jumpy and scared I'd get electrocuted and stuff; well this was my second time doing a jump.</p><p></p><p>So all in all, now that I know I can get power to my amp, I gotta:</p><p></p><p>1. wire my front speakers (my $20 legacy 4x6s) to it.</p><p></p><p>2. wire my rear 6x9s to it.</p><p></p><p>3. install my other HU that has 2.5 sets of preamps</p><p></p><p>4. bolt the amp down.</p><p></p><p>so I gotta say...first timers...it's not that hard really! and you don't have to be overprotective! (well, not to an insane level). thanks to all on this board who've helped me out since december!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sumone, post: 404872, member: 551481"] yup; I went ahead and just took it to a shop to install. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif[/IMG] psych! hell yea I did it! I realize how overprotective I've been; When I went ot do it, I went to a parking lot where people practice driving just so there's people around if anything happened to me. I even called my brother before I was gonna touch the battery and told him to call 911 if I hadn't called him back in 5 minutes. lol. I'm looking for some sparks and stuff to fly, trying not to touch the body of the car at all, etc... However, when I went to connect the power wire to the battery, low and behold, the ring terminal is too small. Good thing I bought that 4ga kit (even though my power wire is 8ga). That terminal was big enough, but it took a lot of crimping to get the wire to stay. (yes, using my hand-crimper only able to go up to 10ga). This connection was just a test to see if I could get the amp run; so after playing with settings a while (which I gotta learn how to set gains correctly), with both doors open, and the radio on, I disconnected everything and tried start my car....no go. No one in the parking lot would give me a jump so I had to call my brother back (who was at school and wouldn't be home til a couple hours) and ask him to give me a jump. So I ended up walking home and when my brother got home, we went over and I performed the jump. So it's all good right now. I'm glad I did this stuff, cause it's given me a lot of confidence on working on my car; first time I did a jump I was all jumpy and scared I'd get electrocuted and stuff; well this was my second time doing a jump. So all in all, now that I know I can get power to my amp, I gotta: 1. wire my front speakers (my $20 legacy 4x6s) to it. 2. wire my rear 6x9s to it. 3. install my other HU that has 2.5 sets of preamps 4. bolt the amp down. so I gotta say...first timers...it's not that hard really! and you don't have to be overprotective! (well, not to an insane level). thanks to all on this board who've helped me out since december! [/QUOTE]
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