Amp power wire w/o fuse?

[KTMrida4life 10+ year member]

So I ordered a fuse holder / fuse from a guy on caco like 3 weeks ago and hes just now shipping them out. So I wont be getting them until Saturday.

I have my amp, my box, and my subs. Im tempted to hook them all up to just listen to it for a day or 2. I would have to pull it all back out anyway since Friday my sound deadener is going in.

Is it OK to hook up an amp power wire to your battery without any sort of fuse or am I just asking for trouble? If its a no go I'll just have to force myself to wait another 2 days.

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[phemps 10+ year member]

Ive done it and been fine actually ive had a decent sized battery bank unfused before and i like to fuse everything. It comes down to whether you are confident in your connections or not. I know of people that dont fuse at all because of whatever slight voltage drop they could potentially create. I have also seen pictures of cars burned to the ground ha so just know what your doing before doing so. They arent required, just a safety really

 

[KTMrida4life 10+ year member]

Ive done it and been fine actually ive had a decent sized battery bank unfused before and i like to fuse everything. It comes down to whether you are confident in your connections or not. I know of people that dont fuse at all because of whatever slight voltage drop they could potentially create. I have also seen pictures of cars burned to the ground ha so just know what your doing before doing so. They arent required, just a safety really

Im confident in my connections, I will tape everything to make sure..

Do the fuses on the amp not help with any sort of short that could cause a fire?

 

[phemps 10+ year member]

Not if the wire comes loose from the amp or shorts elsewhere. those fuses are to protect the amp circuitry your power wire fuse is to protect the power wire from potentially igniting because of excessive current draw due to a shiort etc.

 

[CAT MAN 5,000+ posts]

bro dont tape use heathrink. tape will unwind with heat from my experience . i trust all my connections BUT i still use fuses . you never know what can go wrong

 

[Bggd_GMC 10+ year member]

how many fuses do you need? that i can remember from the 4 diffrent cars iv done i never used fuses

 

[phemps 10+ year member]

bro dont tape use heathrink. tape will unwind with heat from my experience . i trust all my connections BUT i still use fuses . you never know what can go wrong

This^^ I reread that you said tape and was like AHH hah. but yea same ive never had a connection fail but always make sure im fused. its not worth losing my car and the equipment in my car which is worth more than the car itself

 

[disturbed471985 5,000+ posts]

Assuming your amp has built in fuses I see no issue as long as your connections are SOLID. If your amp requires and external fuse due to not having ones built into the board then I would say sit on your hands.

 

[Bggd_GMC 10+ year member]

what if (this happend to me) say you dont have a fuse and you accidently smash your power wire with your seat bracket and your car is all of a sudden full of smoke.... would a fuse stop that from happening? i was like 14 at the time and was scared as shizzz when that happend

 

[disturbed471985 5,000+ posts]

^^ If fussed it would pop them thus the wire would be dead. Thats why you fuse close to your batt so if something happens along the length of the wire it pops the fuse thus no more power makes it past the fuse.

 

[Bggd_GMC 10+ year member]

^^ If fussed it would pop them thus the wire would be dead.

so fuses should be used.... ill look into these later on, its sleeping time

 

[disturbed471985 5,000+ posts]

^^ added to post above to help explain alil more. But I have many fuses all my batts are in my trunk so I have one fuse close to my alt, 1 right before my batts and 1 fuse to each of my amps. Yes, i may be lossing some voltage due to all the fuses but I cant afford for anything to go wrong. I can afford a $2 fuse I cant afford a new car.

 

[brodeisel 10+ year member]

Fuses make the world go round

 

[KTMrida4life 10+ year member]

So hooking it up, just temporarily for 10 minutes or so to listen to it, is a nogo?

My car got hit today in a parking lot and damaged my right door and my rear quarter panel... maybe the bass can pop it out. lol

 

[slvrado28z 10+ year member]

just make sure all of your connections are good and u will be fine.