does this sound right?

[93 saturn sl2 10+ year member]

over the weekend this kid that i know got his car impounded and the people took his amps out of the trunk along with his subs for security reasons, and on monday i re hooked all his stuff up for him. This was my first time ever hooking up a amp and it went perfectly. when I was hooking up his amps i was looking how bestbuy originally installed it and it looked a little weird. They ran 4 gauge power and grounds. and then they have a fused distro block that the 2 8 gauge wires go to the positive terminal on the cap and 2 more 8 gauge wires run to the 2 amps. the negative goes like this 4 gauge to the negative terminal on cap, then 2 8 gauge wires to the amps. Does that sound right how they wired the positive?

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[saywhat? 5,000+ posts]

seems like it could work...........but caps are useless. a guy tried sellin me one and even tried to make a valid point.......sayin it helps ur electrical. i just was like okay, i will find other ways to raise my voltage and keep my lights from dimming.

 

[ruckus]

wow you confused me. pics would make more sense, you have 2 wires out the distro to the cap, 2 wires out the distro to the amp? and 2 wires out the cap to the amp?

 

[req 5,000+ posts]

dude.

that sounds TOTALLY wrong.

POWER WIRE - if he has TWO amps and ONE cap - this is how the power wire goes.

4 guage wire from battery -> fuse in the engine withing 18" of the battery -> through car -> directly onto capicator + terminal -> FUSED distro block -> step down to 8awg wire for each amp -> to amp "BATT\+" terminals

ground for system above;

amplifier GND\- terminal -> capicator - terminal (each ground does NOT need to go through a distro block, use the capicator terminals for this) -> frame\chassis\metal (clean, tight and bare metal, NO PAINT) of the car (from the terminal on the cap, to the ground, use 4awg, NOT 8awg)

all wires must be tight enough wheras if you try to pull them loose from their connection, they should stay firm. all bare wire and\or connectors should be wrapped in eaither electrical tape, or some kind of non-conductive barrier.

it SOUNDS like they had a distro block before the amp\capicator... and a wire from the distro went to the capicator, and the other wire went to the amp. this is RETARDED and all it does is drain your battery more. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[93 saturn sl2 10+ year member]

this is how it is hooked up

 

[ruckus]

do it how req says thats the way it should be.

 

[KaeZoo 10+ year member]

It looks little flaky, but there's no reason why it won't work. In theory, the closer your capacitor is to your amplifiers, the better, so it makes sense they'd put it between the d-block and the amps. Personally, I wouldn't run grounds back to the cap; I'd ground the two amplifiers and the capacitor separately.

The fact is, as long as the cap is wired in parallel you can hook it up any way you like. The only "rule" is not to put so much resistance between the cap's positive terminal and the amp's terminal that you lose whatever dubious benefit the capacitor is supposed to be providing in the first place. Beyond that, you can connect it to the distribution block, use it as a distribution block, connect it on separate wire direct to the amp's positive terminal, or whatever. It's all parallel; the order of the components in the power wire line doesn't matter.

 

[93 saturn sl2 10+ year member]

why did they even put a distrobution block in there?

 

[ruckus]

to run the 4ga into 2 8ga lines //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[KaeZoo 10+ year member]

The only purpose the d-block serves right now is to provide fuse protection for the two 8-gauge wires.

 

[93 saturn sl2 10+ year member]

ok thats what i kinda thought.