Is 5AWG wire sufficient?

[Skits89 10+ year member]

Hello, so i've had my system for year and a half now and it's been running fine. I'm currently running 5 AWG power wire to my Hifonics Brutus 2010D amp (2000 Watt). I have 2 12' kicker cvr's wired at 1 ohm. The amp is turned a little less than 3/4 of the way up and it's been running fine until the speaker wires crossed cause one of the holders broke. No terminals are melted....None of the plastic on the wire is melted...But in the manual it tells me that i need to use 0 AWG. I don't understand since my system is running fine....I guess my question is is am i okay with what i have right now?

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[Skits89 10+ year member]

And for some reason no one has told me to wire my stuff at 0 AWG, for example, all m audio shops have said nothing about it.

 

[Jason Brubaker 10+ year member]

Hello, so i've had my system for year and a half now and it's been running fine. I'm currently running 5 AWG power wire to my Hifonics Brutus 2010D amp (2000 Watt). I have 2 12' kicker cvr's wired at 1 ohm. The amp is turned a little less than 3/4 of the way up and it's been running fine until the speaker wires crossed cause one of the holders broke. No terminals are melted....None of the plastic on the wire is melted...But in the manual it tells me that i need to use 0 AWG. I don't understand since my system is running fine....I guess my question is is am i okay with what i have right now?

IMHO Better to be safe than sorry.

 

[Skits89 10+ year member]

What would go wrong?

 

[ultimate157 5,000+ posts]

Does the wire have a fuse?

Also, "The amp is turned a little less than 3/4 of the way up" makes me believe the amp isn't setup correctly at all.

 

[PhishHead 10+ year member]

ARe you sure you wired the amp to one ohm and not 8? Might be another reason why you arent seeing any problems.

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

5ga Scosche wire from Wal-Mart is like most quality brand wires 8ga

 

[Skits89 10+ year member]

Yes I am sure it is wired at 1 ohm, second yes the line has a fuse, actaully a circuit braker.....and third when I says turned up to 3/4ths way I mean the gain. All the other **** is tuned to the correct setting. And by the way ove had the same battery for 3 years...its the stock battery I got with the car...no battery problems.

 

[ultimate157 5,000+ posts]

Yes, I was talking about the gain as well. Position of the gain doesn't matter because every system will result in a different location of the gain knob depending on pre-out voltages, normal listening volume, actual impedance the subs are wired to, etc, etc. Gain isn't a volume knob.

 

[All_Logix 10+ year member]

You need 0 gauge because for am amp to actually produce 2000 watts it needs to receive somewhere in the realm of 200 amps, which no offense but if your just running stock, that isn't happening. You might not have seen any problems until now because the amp might have just been working with that current it could draw, the heavier gauge wire will allow more current to pass from the charging system into the amp, its like trying to drink from a straw, the bigger the straw the more liquid you can pull through it, little straw less liquid. But I have a question for you, you say the amp started having problems when the speaker wires touched, like the wires from the speaker output positive touched the negative wire....if that is the case, it could have toasted the amp, depending on how well the protect mode on the amp works...is it getting power anymore at all?