ok i currently got a bazooka tube in one of my car not the honda but another car. i have a 4 channel alpine amp that powers the bezooka amp, and my speakers...i didn't do the wiring so i don't exactly know what each one is. but all i see is that each channel is wired to something and i think two of the channels are bridged for the bazooka tube. the bazooka also needs its own power to the AMP i believe and it also has a RCA connection to it to the tube.

the question is i wanna install a different sub, and i was thinking...would it be possible to run a seperate amp to power like a 10 inch JL sub? if i do how would i run it...my deck only has one RCA input...and it alread connected to the amp powering the speakers. the alpine 4 channel amp has two RCA input/output...would i be able to just run a short RCA cable from one amp to another or would i need anotther deck? and if i do run two amps...would i just need another power, ground, and remote kinda thing just like a regular amp?

 

You can use "Y" adapters to split the signal to another amp. You can either run a new power line for the new amp, or, if you have 4 ga power run, you can get a distribution block and split the power with that. You will need to ground the new amp, but you can use the same ground point. Remote wire can just be split with another piece of wire from the first amp's remote terminal to the second.

 

ok i got everything now...except for the RCA splitter or the y adapters....how does that work?

one side has one connector, and the other has two connectors...how does it split into two signals?

 

umm it doesn't....

a sub is technically a mono driver....i think...

so u only "need" to connect one line to it... but you should create a mono line with a y adapter if your amp's sub out is in stereo...

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amp to Y-addapter
L --------\ ______________mono line out to sub
R --------/
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if your old bazooka tube is wired in stereo.... then you could use the "Line Out" from your new amp... and connect that to the old amp...

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Head---(via "old" stereo rca)--->"New AMP"---(via "new" stereo rca)--->bazooka tube


thats assuming you want to use both subs...

 

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No you shouldn't. If you do that, you will end up frying the head unit rca outputs. Most mono sub amps accept a stereo signal and internally convert it to mono, so you don't need to worry about that.