So I'm still searching for a new amp for my subs and everyone I come up with uses a 1/0 input for the power and ground. Which wouldn't be a problem except I'm also going to running a amp for my door speakers which is a 8 gauge power/ground. So my question is how should I go about wiring this up? At first I was going to do a dual amp install kit with 1/0 from the battery to a distribution block, but now I'm not so sure if that wire will be big enough? Is there another way to do this?

 

i have 2 amps behind my seat...i ran 1/0 fused from starting battery to a block behind seat...then from the block i run to another battery (kinetics Hc600) in parallel...then from that battery i go to a dual fuse block with 2 - 60 amp fuses with 1/0....off the fuse block i ran 4/gauge to both amps....for grounds i used 4gauge for amps and 1/0 for batterys....if your amp only accepts 8 gauge wire max then id say you would be ok using it...

 

Well one amp takes 8gauge the other one is looking like it's gonna need 1/0. But I'll probably just skip the distribution block and run them together to the back since I already have a spare 8gauge wire kit laying around somewhere.

 

just run two different leads off the battery

 

Yea that's what I'm gonna do.

 

^^That's what I did