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Old Apr 27, 2003
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quick amp question

hi i have a rockford fosgate 800 punch A2 amp.. i have a power question. on the side where u connect the power and negative. each part has two hole to put wires into.
like this

POWER
O O

GROUND
O O

my question is do i split the power wire and negative wires in half to use both holes? or do i just just one of the holes for power and just use one for ground?

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you need 2 power wires.
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so i need to have two wires comming from the battery? what the hell.. i always thought u would have just one big one.
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you need one 4 guage from the battery, into a distrobution block, from the block into 2 8 guage wires to the amp. the ground wires too.
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you COULD run two 8 guages from the battery.. assuming you already went and got the 8..

i dont think it matters

but if you have the choice.. go with the dist. block
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