how you doin? i have a 1000 watt amp in my 98 f150 4.6. would hooking up another 1000 watt amp drain all the power from my truck or what?

 

a 1000 watts is right on the line already. the amp i have pushes 950, and the guy that installed it for me told me i needed to get a capacitor, or else my truck would come back alive after leaving my key backwards. so yea i would say for 2000 watts, you would either need an extra battery solely for the amps, or get 1(or 2) capacitors.

 

capacitors are a waste....just get a 2nd battery

 

get a bigger alt

 

When you say "1000 watts", what are the amps actually rated at?

I've seen some real doozies over the years. I once saw an amp that had "1600 watts" emblazoned on the heat sink. Upon closer inspection it was a 4 channel Pyramid that was actually rated at 50 watts RMS x 4 channels. Pyramid reasoned that somehow the amp could output 1600 peak watts for a millisecond, or some such thing, so that gave them the right to say it was 1600 watts. Seeing that Pyramid is nothing but flea market crap, even the 50 watt figure is probably at some outrageous distortion number.

Sad thing is those kinds of tricks fool sooooo many people who know no better.

 

Exactly... is it a jenn-sen, japonica, panamasonic, 1000watter? Then you could probably install 10 of em! Since 5 won't work, and the rest are only actually rated @250. ha ha ha.

 

If it's throwing out 1000 Pyle Watts, adding a second battery will be as easy as stealing some AA's from your TV remote.

Being serious though.. 1/0 ga. wire, second optima or Kinetic battery and a bigger alternator.