Please help w/alpine amp install
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Rep Power: 245 Please help w/alpine amp install
I got my first sub and it sounds great! so I am running it off my component amp bridged now, but i have a second mono amp i am trying to install. Basically the question I have is, how to get the power and ground wire into the amp. The alpines have an openning much smaller than pencil width that I am supposed to jam 4ga wire into? So i can't make it fit...8ga may fit btw, but it seems pointless to run 4ga all the way back and then use 8ga for the last few inches. Any suggestions? I was thinking ring terminal but the ring is too big. thanks.
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Rep Power: 243 Get a distribution block. One that goes from a 4ga into two or four 8ga outputs. Run one 8ga wire to the amplifier used for the components and an 8ga wire to the mono amp.
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Rep Power: 788 Try and find a shop to mod the spade terminal or shave some off to make it fit. Or maybe get an 8 gauge terminal and mod the 4 gauge one to fit on the end somehow. Also check www.partsexpress.com for some different terminal connectors.
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Rep Power: 0 They do make adapters that let you convert from from a larger guage wire to a smaller one. They kind of look like those adapters you put on a socket wrench to be able to use smaller sockets. http://www.cardomain.com/item/STIS48ADAPTPT
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