ok i run power to battery
speaker wire from subs to amp
ground
rca's to deck

what about the blue wire, the antenna? where do i run that too....the deck??

 

The blue wire is your remote turn on. It turns the amp on when the deck is on. There should be a blue wire coming off of the headunit too. Just butt splice them together or solder and your good. Everything else is correct.

Edit: Don't forget a fuse as close to the battery as possible (no more than 12") and make your ground wire as short as possible. I used the seatbelt bolts.


[Modified by t0p_sh0tta, 11:11 PM 3/16/2003]

 

One of the blue wires should be a remote turn on.It's on the radio usually as a blue wire. When you turn on the radio it supplies 12v to turn on the amps. On your deck you may have a power antenna wire as well. It's usually blue with a stripe. Don't forget to use a fuse on your main battery line. Also your ground wires and connections must be the same quality as your positive wire. It's all a circuit, electricity must return to the battery. Your install is only as good as your best connection.

 

So you connect the amp power directly to the battery?

 

yes

 

ahh the remote, thats what it is called.

when connecting it to the battery, can i just screw it (use the circle hook) on where the bolt is that tightens the cmap on the terminal

 

Use ring terminals to connect to the battery, and ground to your chassis.

You might be able to get them at Radio Shack, but i don't know if they carry them this big.

 

Should you use that c shape connecter to connect the wires to the amp or can you just screw the wires to the terminals.

 

Better of using a ring terminal so you get maximum contact.

 

i use raw wire at my battery terminals, something wrong with that?

 

I HAVE NO FUSE...is it absolutely neccesary???

 

are you kidding?

Think of that wire shorting out throught the firewall,, or whereever,... smoking, sizzeling away with no fuse to disconnect it from the battery... you know, like a toaster element... you have good fire insurance out there?

 

NO FUSE?!?!?!? man that is like car audio 101
not only fire issues...you are totally running the risk of trying out all your amps....if you have a surge the fuse will pop...in your case your amps will pop
that is easily one of the stupidest things I have ever heard when it comes to car audio

 

what are you using to secure it? those expensive battery terminals (stinger, monster, etc)?

 

This is a joke right!

Yes fuses are absolutely neccesary!!!
You can get one for around $10. The damage that can be done without one is far beyond that. You will want to place this as close to the battery as possible.

 

real quick bump and hijack. i heard that you should run the power on one side of the car and the rca's on the other. is this true? what is the purpose of keeping them seperate from each other.

 

Yes, you want to run power down driverside and RCA's down the passengerside. This will eliminate any interference from the power wire emitting to the RCA's which in turn will make your system sound like junk!

 

thanks!

 

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This is a joke right!

Yes fuses are absolutely neccesary!!!
You can get one for around $10. The damage that can be done without one is far beyond that. You will want to place this as close to the battery as possible.

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LOL

Yeah definately get a fuse. If you got an amp wiring kit, the fuse is in there. They are cheap. I just did a basic install and the amp wiring kit was like 30 bucks from wal mart. Nothing fancy but it works and it had a fuse

 

You guys do realize trhat this thread is almost a year old, right?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by koco &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">One of the blue wires should be a remote turn on.It's on the radio usually as a blue wire. When you turn on the radio it supplies 12v to turn on the amps. On your deck you may have a power antenna wire as well. It's usually blue with a stripe. Don't forget to use a fuse on your main battery line. Also your ground wires and connections must be the same quality as your positive wire. It's all a circuit, electricity must return to the battery. Your install is only as good as your best connection.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Well said and done!