How do I run 2 amps?

[RJ_22 10+ year member]

I have a Alpine 9815 HU, diamond m3 subs, hifonics amp to power the subs. I want to run my old Rockford fosgate to my coaxials for my highs. I have a distibution block and the extra wires. So what do I need to do?

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[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

Hook it up..........what exactly are you confused about?? It's relatively easy, just duplicate the process that you do when you hook up one amp.

 

[RJ_22 10+ year member]

no, do I run the speaker wires to the amp, or what? Or am I supposed to run RCA's from the radio to the amp?

 

[hoss 5,000+ posts]

run RCA's to the amp, run wires from the amp to the speakers, power the amp with a B+, G, and a remote wire. adjust the gains until youre happy, call it a day and open a beer.

 

[Pimp4Life 10+ year member]

way to keep it simple hoss

 

[TheVanMan 10+ year member]

...and open a beer.

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[ryanc 10+ year member]

if you're wondering about how to get the sound to it, you'll need an amp that has pass-through RCA outputs so that you can run the RCAs to one amp and then from that amp to the other amp. If you don't have that feature available, you may be able to get away with using a 2nd set of line-level outputs from your head unit. If you don't have that option available, you could either run speaker wire to the speaker wire inputs on the amp from your head unit, OR you could be a ghetto and run an RCA splitter to get to both amps.