Ok, I know I should go to the battery for my amp, but is there any other place inside the cab I could draw from. I am using a 300 watt amp, not too big. I have a 05 supcab xlt. Thanks for any info.....

 

no.... definitely not... going to the battery for any kind of amplifier is the only place thats safe on an f-150.

 

X2!! definatly go straight to the battery!!

 

yea, unless you want to be the first to try to pull 300 watts of power from a 16 gauge wire that is probably fused at like 5 amps.....then i would say x3

 

Just wanted to make sure. I usually go to the battery with the amp, just wanted to know if there was a source in the cab I could got to without going trough the firewall. By the way, which "hole" or "area" should I choose to go through the firewall. Have installed amps in the past, just not on the new body styles....thanks again for all the help..

 

Right behind the battery, there is a grommet.

P.S. GO TIGERS!

 

Will proceed to the battery, thanks for the info. I hope the Tigers can prove the experts wrong and do better than #6. They alway under estimate LSU....later....

 

I also have a little pictorial in my signature about this... my grommet of choice was on the driver's side.

I never had a problem with it.

 

yeah hit the one on the driver's side. it's the best one to go through on the new body style trucks

 

Umm, NO IT ISNT.

 

duh! everyone knows the easiest way to do it on ANY car is run a wire through the window and in a crease between the hood and another panel, you guys are retarded!

 

No, gosh. Dumby. Try just mounting the amp in the hood. Fuses are a PITA and worthless....

 

what was i thinking?! fuses are pointless, if your stuff shorts out you can just electrical tape over the charred insulation

 

I literally just worked on a Jetta that completely fried all insulation off of the wire. It no **** caught fire under the dash and the copper was like burnt paper (touch it and it falls apart).

He wrapped some copper (18ga remote wire) around a 25A fuse (of course the hot side of the fuse) and decided to use it for power wire, well in putting everything back together put a screw threw it... Starts it up and poof fire. Melted through his fuse panel... HORRIBLE. He also did it 2x...

I laughed at the shear stupidity (P.S. He is the asst manager at my new CCity...)

 

wow....just speechless, i am suprsided that people even go to that level, i had some fog lights that shorted out, i went to replace the fuse and the two ends touched each other and poof up in smoke the wire went i just took em out