Wiring 2 amps together?

[BassBEAST88 10+ year member]

Ok now i have a directed audio 1500D for my type r and a urban audio 300 watt for my front speakers. Now i have the power rem and ground all hookd up to the 1500D can i run jumpers off the 1500D to the urban. As a jumper wire off the B+ on the 1500D to the B+ on the urban amp! Can i also do the same with rem and gnd jump it from the 1500D to the urban. Then run rcas out of the 1500D into the urban audio????

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[jrz126 10+ year member]

buy a distribution block, it will provide much better connections

 

[BassBEAST88 10+ year member]

Just out of curiousity would that still work?

 

[BassBEAST88 10+ year member]

Jumpers would work right i could make it look all nice and stuff???

 

[ToyTundra 10+ year member]

It would turn on, but it would also be a fire hazard

 

[BassBEAST88 10+ year member]

Why would it be a fired hazard its basically all hooked up correctly jsut without a DB all the DB does it split power up im basically doing that but without fuses //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/up2something.gif.dd110ecf3ae4b76050d87598f2f8de7c.gif

 

[IA2 10+ year member]

The ONLY thing you should jump is your remote wire. Everything else should be hooked up as normal. You need to ground each amp individually to the chassis. Unless you only have 1 output for rca's from your headunit, I would run a seperate RCA wire for the subs and highs. (that is assuming your hu has seperate controls for subs)

 

[BassAddictJ 5,000+ posts]

you CAN do it that way but your amps will help the amps out by useing distrib. blocks

 

[n2audio 5,000+ posts]

it could get ghetto pretty easily, but as long as your wires are large enough and the connections are solid it won't cause you any problems. I would go with at least 4 ga to the Directed and 8 or 10 to the Urban. To do it right you should fuse the smaller wire also. Ground them seperately.

 

[thch 10+ year member]

for noise reasonse, its best to run seperate ground wires to the chassis. remote wire can be run from amp to amp. power wire, eh, if you have sufficient room to fit 2 wires of sufficient gauge you can.

 

[DiamondFanatic 10+ year member]

I would do a distribution block for sure, unless you're really poor and desire to be incredibly ghetto. Of course, I also have a tendency to run distribution blocks of the fused variety... so dual purpose. You should have two seperate grounds.

 

[bikejunkie223 10+ year member]

just because you can, doesnt mean you should. It will work but be pretty ghetto. Just spend the $10 on a distro block. I like to run an unfused distro block to collect my grounds in multi-amp setups too, looks clean.

 

[BassBEAST88 10+ year member]

I will just hook the frint back up to the cd and the rears up to the cd player and leave it as is. I guess i dont need the amp for the speakers!

 

[QuikSilverRS91 10+ year member]

Dude just quit being a lazy *** and buy a distribution block. God ****... at least get a Radioshack distribution block or something. Distribution blocks are cheap as hell and you get a much better result. Don't ghetto-fy your install when it doesn't need to be. (or ever for that matter)

 

[BassBEAST88 10+ year member]

Shut the **** up anyways i dont need an amp to push my front speakers! I will jsut take it all out and just use my directed for the sub!