amp rack wiring/quick disconnect?

[phoenix808 10+ year member]

hey all. im planning on building an amp rack, and would like it to be quickly removable (all theoretical now, no real clue of wiring yet).

i would like to put my 2 amps and my cap in there, but didn't know if it was possible to have a capacitor and still be able to quickly remove the rig.

anyone got any suggestions or knowledge? i wouldn't think it's possible, but otherwise I don't know where I'd put my cap. thanks a ton.

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[Matador 10+ year member]

hmmm, kinda hard to make it dat way.

one way could be to make the wires a little bit longer so u can move the rack out a bit.

dotn think there's anything that will allow u to quickly dis/connect the wires

 

[Matt0528 10+ year member]

not sure about the cap

but get some male/female connectors and do it that way

although i havent seen connectors big enough for 2 gauge and so on

 

[paikiah 5,000+ posts]

if the wire changes to a smaller one, the risk of fire is there. You COULD get some snap rings and get a 4 gauge coming in, and a 2gauge to amps or soemthing, just to be sure.

I guess you COULD use a distro block on them for easier disengaging. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[defiance 10+ year member]

Right - a molex connector wouldn't be too hard to come by for all the speaker/turnon/etc wires, just dig through a digikey catalog for a bit ... RCA, just get some female-to-female connectors at wal-mart or rat-shack ... Then put a distribution block in the car itself for the power & ground wires ... then don't use it for actual distribution, just use it as a junction. Then, you just unscrew the power/ground from the dist block (10 seconds), and everything else just unplugs.

 

[maylar 10+ year member]

Multi-pin connectors and a distro block sounds like a plan to me. Before removing anything, you'd need to pull the main fuse so the bare wire end won't spark & short in the trunk. Then turn the system back on for a few seconds or put a 12V headlight across the cap to discharge it. When you reconnect the system, put the headlight across the fuse terminals for 10 secs or so and charge the cap back up, then replace the fuse. Notice how having a cap makes all this more complicated.