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I will have two amps in the trunk. One for the highs and one for the subs. Can i have both amps connected to the same power wire that goes to the battery?

Thanks... This is all new to me.

 
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yup no problem as long as the fuse can hold and the wire is big enough...

 
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you should def invest in a disto block so they get the same power. and how big is you power wire going back. should prob be 4 gauge.

 
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get a distribution block. they look somehting like this http://www.lightningaudio.com/2004/p...asp?prodID=270 .

Some of them look different, and they are many types, depending on how many amps you wanna hook up.

 
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get 0 gauge wire.... why you may ask, well i don't know, its just it nice and thick..

 
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2-4 guage should suffice . . . run that into the distribution blocks. Get 2 30amp fuses to go on the distribution blocks and then run 4-8 guage off the distribution blocks into the amps. And that picture they posted above is exactly what you need.

 
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get fuses that are rated for the amps.

 
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would you have to run 2 system remote wires to each amp?

 
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DONT DO IT.. seriously use that extra 5 bux and buy the extra wirte and fuse for ur extra amp.. i heard alota stuff on how ppl did that.. and it interfered with both amps sum how.. mah brother juss blew his 2000 watt amp the other day cus it was wired like that.. and the sub box was FILLED with smoke.. he burned his coils.. sum how.. it tells the amp to work harder then u put it.. and after a while.. it starts fu<kin up..
DONT DO IT

 
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wtf?

youre gonna sit here and tell me with a straight face that a distribution block caused an amp to blow?

youre gonna have to explain this one to me before i make you look stupid...

 
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alrite heres the thing.. u have an amp.. and u run one wire straight to the battery.. u have another amp.. and u run it threw the same wire.. ud think that since its a complete curcuit.. it would be able to work without ne thing happeneing.. juss like 2 seperate wires... but i read ALOTA stuff.. heres what it says

when u get 2 amps to the same wire.. it basicly is making the wire run more electricity threw the wire then if there was one amp(obviously)
when u get 2 amps to the same wire.. more electricity is running.. and sumthing inside the amp tells it "work harder".. the amp wont be giving out the "harder" output but the internals of the amp will pay for it.. messing it all up.. i argued juss like u did.. believing it could work.. but with 2 of mah friends.. 1 including mah brother who did the same thing.. with the same crap happning... i say dunt take the chance...
NOW if this is all coinsidence... go ahead and make me look stupid.. otherwize.. i say if it happened twice... dunt try it

 
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Uhhh...it's industry standard to run one large power wire, to a distribution block, and then run smaller wires to each amp.

My setup:

1/0 from the battery back to a distro block, and three 4 guage wires to my amps...never had a problem, and neither do the thousands of others with a similar setup.

You guys just dont know what the hell your doing, or your crappy amps blew up on their own.

 
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how would you do the system remote wires if u had 2 amps?

 
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Maybe they daisy chained the amps together. You know positive coming into the amp and negitive of that amp going to positive of the next etc until he runs out of amps and attatches negative of the last amp to ground.

But that would be STUPID! You never know though. It would explain why he thinks an amp can see the current draw of another amp.