What Gauge Amp Kits Should I Use?

[gongos 10+ year member]

For a Alpine PDX 4.100?

For a Alpine PDX 4.150?

For a Alpine PDX 1.1000?

And what's a good brand?

Thanks.

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[AllDayMJ 10+ year member]

umm, you probably can get away with a run of 8ga to the smaller 4ch amp, if you know an electrician, just get a runs of 6ga for them. the 4/150, id go with 4ga minimum, and for the 1k watt pdx, id say 1/0 would be proper.

Lightning audio actually makes nuts power wire. 47XX strand count on 1/0 fits into 2-3/0 fittings only for me..

knu makes decent wire, knukoncepts.com i believe, but the knu stuff is deffinently like 80% of the size of the Lightning audio shit..

 

[BobbyDD 10+ year member]

umm, you probably can get away with a run of 8ga to the smaller 4ch amp, if you know an electrician, just get a runs of 6ga for them. the 4/150, id go with 4ga minimum, and for the 1k watt pdx, id say 1/0 would be proper.
Lightning audio actually makes nuts power wire. 47XX strand count on 1/0 fits into 2-3/0 fittings only for me..

knu makes decent wire, knukoncepts.com i believe, but the knu stuff is deffinently like 80% of the size of the Lightning audio shit..

I'd use knu before lightning audio anyday, but I'd use Kicker overall. I'd run 1/0 gauge to the distro block and then 4 gauge from there.

 

[SomeDonnieDude 10+ year member]

Lightning audio does make some very nice wire, alot of it is the exact same as Rockford Fosgates wire (after all it is there off brand). My sis's Rockford kit actually says lightning audio right on the power wire.

Anyways.... a single run of 1/0 like Bobby said should cover it all. 0ga is a little hard to run so you could get away with 2 runs of 4ga if you wanted.