Wiring Question
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Wiring Question
My old setup: 200W RMS amp pushing a 250W RMS sub. Amp was 400 Max and Sub was 1000 Max. Sounded great.
New setup that will come in hopefully by thursday, most likely early next week though, its in 4 different shipments lol: 800W RMS amp pushing two 350 RMS subs for 700 RMS total. The amp is 1600 Max and the subs are 2800 Max.
The new amp I am getting is the exact one I had for 5 years until about a year ago - don't laugh - an Audiobahn A8002T. I have developed a love for this amp. It was the first amp I bought when I was 16, and it never missed a beat through 5 years of hell and incredible abuse. I had it just sitting freely under the seat in one vehicle, and that vehicles main job on the weekends was going fast over very very rough terrain, that amp got the hell beat out of it and never faltered. It pushed everything from the first 10" sub I had to 3 15's in the back of a buddy of mines 4Runner, and never let any other amp I tried or a buddy had let it beat it.
I pawned it off about a year ago, but now I have ordered another one. All those years I had one I always ran 4 Gauge wire for the power and ground. My question is is that necessary? I still have all 8 Gauge run in my truck from my last setup, what would be the drawbacks from leaving that 8 Gauge in there? Or do I absolutely need to run a new 4 Gauge power and ground?
New setup that will come in hopefully by thursday, most likely early next week though, its in 4 different shipments lol: 800W RMS amp pushing two 350 RMS subs for 700 RMS total. The amp is 1600 Max and the subs are 2800 Max.
The new amp I am getting is the exact one I had for 5 years until about a year ago - don't laugh - an Audiobahn A8002T. I have developed a love for this amp. It was the first amp I bought when I was 16, and it never missed a beat through 5 years of hell and incredible abuse. I had it just sitting freely under the seat in one vehicle, and that vehicles main job on the weekends was going fast over very very rough terrain, that amp got the hell beat out of it and never faltered. It pushed everything from the first 10" sub I had to 3 15's in the back of a buddy of mines 4Runner, and never let any other amp I tried or a buddy had let it beat it.
I pawned it off about a year ago, but now I have ordered another one. All those years I had one I always ran 4 Gauge wire for the power and ground. My question is is that necessary? I still have all 8 Gauge run in my truck from my last setup, what would be the drawbacks from leaving that 8 Gauge in there? Or do I absolutely need to run a new 4 Gauge power and ground?
