Difference in Amp kit wires

[cappy72 10+ year member]

What is the difference of a rockford foscate amp kit and a walmart special? Is there really any noticable difference or is it just for show?

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[pavengmike6 10+ year member]

I have never bought a RF install kit, but the stinger one I saw in the store claims it has more strands of wire per inch than the other kits. You may be getting a higher quality fuse kit, wire, and rca's than what is in a walmart kit. I can almost bet if you are not running extrmem power requirments then the walmart one will do just fine.

I would buy the kit that is BIGGER than your amp. Lets say you have a 500 watt amp. You can buy a kit that powers 350 - 500 watts and that would work, but I would go with the 1000 watt kit. You may want to upgrade later and it will save you time and money to plan ahead. It will not hurt to have bigger wire (unless it does not fit in your amp). But it will hurt not to have big enough.

 

[cappy72 10+ year member]

I already have a 8 AWG foscate kit, running a foscate 500a2 amp(500rms). I am in the process of getting another amp, multi-channel. I am just trying to find out if there is an actual difference in the amp kits. Personally I would not get a walmart special, but I still wanted to know the difference.

 

[n2audio 5,000+ posts]

the biggest difference is the RF kit is a lot more expensive.

 

[LoneRanger 10+ year member]

Wire is wire is wire is wire.

 

[ramos 5,000+ posts]

The fosgate kit has prettier fuse holders and a bigger price tag //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif