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[jimmyflames1 10+ year member]

just my experience. Knew very little about instalation. I just kinda figured run a power wire and a ground speaker wires, concerning amps that is. Run around 600 wrms amps into one sub. Originally just ran a 10g single wires from battery to trunk for power and 16g wire for speakers.

Went ahead and ran two more 10g power from baterry and new grounds as well.

was very surprised how much increased volume and thump came from that. Then I added a second set of 16g speaker wires to sub. Again I was very surprised.

Much to learn on this forum. One dude says something like 10% equipment 90% instalation. Instal is very important indeed from my experience.

Plan on doing the big three next.

Also going to add a second 500Wrms amp. I wonder if the 3 - 10G power wires would be enough for around 1000W rms total. I dont know what 3 -10 gauge combined eqaules to one total wire size. My guess is that it wont be enough. Lenght is around 15 feet.

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[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

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[jimmyflames1 10+ year member]

yeah a plan:naughty: . Not sure how well thought out it ever was or still is. Learning as I go. The wireing like I said made a really huge diferrence. Very Surprising especially since its about the cheapest coponent in the whole system.

Anyone know what 3-10g wires together would equate to? Like would it equal like one 4G?

 

[.::DuD3::. 10+ year member]

instead of running multiple wires, just run one big enough gauge to allow yourself to upgrade. check out http://www.bcae1.com for all the questions about wires.

 

[n2audio 5,000+ posts]

Anyone know what 3-10g wires together would equate to? Like would it equal like one 4G?

5.25ga

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[jimmyflames1 10+ year member]

5 G power wire would probably not be enough thenon 15 foot run? 1000W RMS into 2 subs 4 ohm. I did a search but really couldn't get an answer. Everybody asks about specific amps.

What would be minimum. I wont ever be upgrading past this 1000W RMS

 

[tRiGgEr 5,000+ posts]

Use 1/0 guage and you wont have to worry about it.

 

[n2audio 5,000+ posts]

You're close enough to the limit of 5 ga that the efficiency of the amp will make a significant difference, but when it comes right down to it -- if you're not going to be blasting it non-stop, and your wires are fused properly near the battery you shouldn't have any problems.

http://www.bcae1.com/images/swfs/wirepowercalculator.swf

 

[jimmyflames1 10+ year member]

sat down over the weeekend and really dug in the amp manual. Its so darn confusing written in different languages and english and not laid out very well. Finally did get out of it that 4 g is what manual says is the minimum for one of these sony 500wrms amps.

I'm running two amps for 1000w rms total. Looks like 5 g aint goin to cut it. Man 2 g and bigger is so darn huge ( how the heck do you guys run it to the trunk?). think i'll just run one more 4 g and split . 4g to one amp and leave 5 g to the other.