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<blockquote data-quote="TheBigDu" data-source="post: 752453" data-attributes="member: 559539">Hey guys,I will be doing my first amp and full speaker install in the next few weeks and I have a quick question about wiring.&nbsp; The amp is an ARC Audio KAR 400.4, which will be putting out around 200-300 watts.&nbsp; For now, that&#039;s the only amp I&#039;m going to have, because I haven&#039;t bought anything for the subwoofer yet.&nbsp; I would like to run only one wire through the firewall for this amp and any future sub amps.&nbsp; I&#039;m going to estimate that a sub amp I get in the future will not exceed 600 watts.&nbsp; So my questions are:1)&nbsp; Which size wire should I be using?2)&nbsp; How do you properly calculate the required fuse amperage?3)&nbsp; What&#039;s a good (but not really expensive) way to hook the wire up to the battery?&nbsp; I have seen a couple of sophisticated looking ring terminals, but can I just use a plain-jane one?Thanks,Brian</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheBigDu, post: 752453, member: 559539"] Hey guys, I will be doing my first amp and full speaker install in the next few weeks and I have a quick question about wiring. The amp is an ARC Audio KAR 400.4, which will be putting out around 200-300 watts. For now, that's the only amp I'm going to have, because I haven't bought anything for the subwoofer yet. I would like to run only one wire through the firewall for this amp and any future sub amps. I'm going to estimate that a sub amp I get in the future will not exceed 600 watts. So my questions are: 1) Which size wire should I be using? 2) How do you properly calculate the required fuse amperage? 3) What's a good (but not really expensive) way to hook the wire up to the battery? I have seen a couple of sophisticated looking ring terminals, but can I just use a plain-jane one? Thanks, Brian [/QUOTE]

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