I have 3 amps that I want to hook up in my car and I was wondering what the best setup would be as in buying a dual amp kit or what and can you just hook all the amps to one distributor or what im kinda new to all the audio stuff but I was wondering what the best setup was to run the 3 amps one for the front speakers, one for the rears, and one for my subs. I already have one amp hooked up so what would I need to buy to hook the other 2 up to my system? Yes I do have an aftermarket HU with 3 preamp outputs.

 

i would recomend a headunit with front, rear, and subpreouts so you have control over every thing from the head unit. As far as distribution goes you can either use a distribution block with like a four gauge in and 4 eight gauges out, and you can do this because the shorter the power wire run the smaller gauge wire you can use, but you could also use a power capicator as the power distribution. it all depnds on what you want to do and what amps you got and how much power they need.

 

well i have a kicker 600.1 monoblock amo for my kicker solo baric 12 and I have a kenwood 800.2 channel amo for my 2 alpine type s's 6'9's and a legacy 400.2 channel amp for my alpine type s's 6'5' in hte front so would I need a capacitor to runt he system or would running the battery just be enough to power everything?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by kcem1 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i would recomend a headunit with front, rear, and subpreouts so you have control over every thing from the head unit. As far as distribution goes you can either use a distribution block with like a four gauge in and 4 eight gauges out, and you can do this because the shorter the power wire run the smaller gauge wire you can use, but you could also use a power capicator as the power distribution. it all depnds on what you want to do and what amps you got and how much power they need.</TD></TR></TABLE> Also I do have a pioneer premier HU DEH-770 with 3 preamp outputs for front, rear, and subs so im fine in that department.

 

iwould recomend getting at least a one farad cap becasue thats going to be alot of current draw on the alternator and unless you've upgraded you altenator it will recieve damge. so I would recommend 4 gauge to the cap and from there run 4 gauge to the sub amp, a 8 guage to each of of the 2 channels from the cap. AS far as the headunit ges it should be work great with your system,

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by crystalblue99lude &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I have 3 amps that I want to hook up in my car and I was wondering what the best setup would be as in buying a dual amp kit or what and can you just hook all the amps to one distributor or what im kinda new to all the audio stuff but I was wondering what the best setup was to run the 3 amps one for the front speakers, one for the rears, and one for my subs. I already have one amp hooked up so what would I need to buy to hook the other 2 up to my system? Yes I do have an aftermarket HU with 3 preamp outputs.</TD></TR></TABLE>Get the 2 amp kit, use it for the high pass amps, [front and rear] use the power lead you already have on the sub amp, and if installing a cap, install it on the sub amp power wire only, [easy if the sub amp has its own power wire] the cap, although very use full, is only a band-aid, with the amount of power, [watts] you are running, I would upgrade the alt. real soon, if you like to play your music loud, it won't be long before the alt. is damaged. 94

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by kcem1 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">iwould recomend getting at least a one farad cap becasue thats going to be alot of current draw on the alternator and unless you've upgraded you altenator it will recieve damge. so I would recommend 4 gauge to the cap and from there run 4 gauge to the sub amp, a 8 guage to each of of the 2 channels from the cap. AS far as the headunit ges it should be work great with your system,</TD></TR></TABLE>thanks for all the comments its alot of help do you guys think that a place like car toys would be able to do all of this and do you guys know if they have the cap and all the amp kits to do the install or would i need to provide?

 

car toys would be a great place to go they should be able to take care of every thing.

 

thanks man im going there for the entire install just waiting for my amp to arrive it should sometime this week hopefully thanks for the input guys