wiring question
07-24-2005, 07:13 AM
#1
i have a question; i just bought an optima yellow top for my g/f` 98 malibu. i`m currently running 4awg wire to a cap to power three amps 2 fosgate punches and a little lightning audio. sometime soon i`m adding a mono amp and sub, so i wanted to upgrade the wire to 2awg to my cap and isolate the mono. but the battery has top and side mounts, so i was thinking of running a separte 4awg off the top terminals to the mono. what do you guys think? the reason why i`m considering this is because 4awg wire is a buck a foot and 2 ga is 4 bucks+ per foot. 4ga is the cheaper route.
07-24-2005, 12:40 PM
#2
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sounds good to me.....bigger wire is nicer to run with cause there is less wire to run through the car...but then you need fuse blocks to split it all...so yeah...it will cost more... if you don't mind the extra wires in there, go for it
07-24-2005, 01:21 PM
#3
Originally posted by scroudt100:
sounds good to me.....bigger wire is nicer to run with cause there is less wire to run through the car...but then you need fuse blocks to split it all...so yeah...it will cost more... if you don't mind the extra wires in there, go for it
sounds good to me.....bigger wire is nicer to run with cause there is less wire to run through the car...but then you need fuse blocks to split it all...so yeah...it will cost more... if you don't mind the extra wires in there, go for it
07-24-2005, 02:31 PM
#5
Originally posted by scroudt100:
there won't be a difference in voltage......Are you running the ground to the car, or back to the battery??? if you ground it to the car you won't have to run as much wire
there won't be a difference in voltage......Are you running the ground to the car, or back to the battery??? if you ground it to the car you won't have to run as much wire
07-25-2005, 05:28 PM
#8
Ground is not ground and it does matter. The assumed correct method of grounding to the nearest bolt and cleaning the paint away is far from a proper ground. With any of these vehicles and the unibody construction these days, imagine the resistance that builds up on the ground return through the unibody full of glued together body panels and crappy spot welds.
Electricity is an algebra equation, what you do to one side, you must do to the other. In all cases, the ground wire is the single most important wire in the system, yet it is the one that is abused most often by installers not knowing what a good ground really is.
Electricity is an algebra equation, what you do to one side, you must do to the other. In all cases, the ground wire is the single most important wire in the system, yet it is the one that is abused most often by installers not knowing what a good ground really is.
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