Quick question. 4 positives from amps to bat, 4 negatives from amps to bat. How many negatives from bat to chassis?
Honestly... you don't have to ground your amps to the chassis. In fact, you don't have to involve the chassis of vehicle at all if you don't want to. Saying that you have to ground your amps to the chassis is misleading. It depends on how the person wants to wire their system. Ground the battery or batteries to the chassis. At that point you "could" ground your amplifiers to the chassis but why when the most direct route to the battery ground is, the battery ground... grounding to the chassis puts a resistive item betweent the amp ground and its journey back to the battery ground. Best bet is a second battery in the close proximity of the amplifiers so that those amplifiers can ground directly to the negative of that battery.
Your first sentence there is one that leads me to think you should not drive right now...
Perhaps there are 4 amplifiers therefore 4 power wires and four ground wires. Hopefully sometime between now and later he will post and give us a little more info on his setup... Man, now I am typing like I am drink.
I am curious as to why there are 4 positives from the amps and 4 negatives from the amps... and why they are going to what I have to assume is an engine bay mounted battery? What size are these cables?
That is a lot of power... I have not run that much so hopefully someone will chime in.I got two taramps 8ks in the back ran on 1 limitless lithium 70aH. No front battery, all 1/0 ofc. Dual inputs for the taramps 8ks. So a total of 4 positives from amps to battery and 4 negatives from amplifier to battery. I’d rather ground amps to battery since this is a higher power application. I’m 17 and don’t have too much experience, no one I know does car audio so I’m self taught from the internet for everything.
It’s a series 6th for 4 zv5 18s.
Running a single 350 alt in the front and will upgrade to dual if my voltage drops too much.
I got two taramps 8ks in the back ran on 1 limitless lithium 70aH. No front battery, all 1/0 ofc. Dual inputs for the taramps 8ks. So a total of 4 positives from amps to battery and 4 negatives from amplifier to battery. I’d rather ground amps to battery since this is a higher power application. I’m 17 and don’t have too much experience, no one I know does car audio so I’m self taught from the internet for everything.
It’s a series 6th for 4 zv5 18s.
Running a single 350 alt in the front and will upgrade to dual if my voltage drops too much.
I got two taramps 8ks in the back ran on 1 limitless lithium 70aH. No front battery, all 1/0 ofc. Dual inputs for the taramps 8ks. So a total of 4 positives from amps to battery and 4 negatives from amplifier to battery. I’d rather ground amps to battery since this is a higher power application. I’m 17 and don’t have too much experience, no one I know does car audio so I’m self taught from the internet for everything.
It’s a series 6th for 4 zv5 18s.
Running a single 350 alt in the front and will upgrade to dual if my voltage drops too much.