What gauge ground wire for brutus 1800d

[dcole302 10+ year member]

What size power and ground wires do you recommend for the 1800d? Is 4 gauge too small?

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[z0n3d0u7 10+ year member]

Wats the fusing of the amp? Id say 4ga is indeed to small.

 

[TurdFergueson2 5,000+ posts]

Same size as your power. Hopefully both 1/0

 

[dcole302 10+ year member]

Yea, i had a shop look at my setup and they told me the amp was faulty, so I had it checked out and turned out to be ok. I checked the wires they hooked it up with and they are four gauge and the amp is grounded to the cap. So Im guessing, I should just up grade the wire?

 

[pawn man 10+ year member]

always over built the electrical. much less problems. 1/0 is what i would put.

 

[bhsdriller 10+ year member]

the biggest it'll fit

 

[TurdFergueson2 5,000+ posts]

Yea, i had a shop look at my setup and they told me the amp was faulty, so I had it checked out and turned out to be ok. I checked the wires they hooked it up with and they are four gauge and the amp is grounded to the cap. So Im guessing, I should just up grade the wire?

You should remove/sell the cap and use that money to buy bigger wire.

And I would not ground an amp to a cap, but that's just me.

 

[inkfx 10+ year member]

Yeah ground the amp to the chasis not to the cap. Caps are useless anyway.

 

[dcole302 10+ year member]

Yea I was pissed when I seen that was where they grounded it to. I guess I could just get rid of the cap altogether. Its best to ground both amps to the same spot right? Sorry for the simple questions.

 

[dcole302 10+ year member]

always over built the electrical. much less problems. 1/0 is what i would put.

What exactly do you mean by over built the electrical?