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Leonard
Intermediate Member
Username: Leonard
Post Number: 243
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, September 24, 2011 - 12:22 am: | 
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Ok here is the question? When you run a radio and amp would you run separate wire's from the radio and amp to the battery? Or can it work by hooking both positive wire's into one and to the battery, and negative wire's into one and to the battery? And if you did the two into one wire would it get hot from the draw? I did read in another post to use a 4 or 6 gauge wire would this be correct.
Thank you Len cef#189 |
Moonraker
Intermediate Member
Username: Moonraker
Post Number: 287
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, September 24, 2011 - 12:33 pm: |
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I have the batt- grounded to the frame and a ground wire for the amp grounded to the frame. I run a + power wire from the batt to the amp. The wires for my radio are connected to the amp power wires. What size amp are you using? Amp size and length of the wire will determine what size power wire you need. |
Leonard
Intermediate Member
Username: Leonard
Post Number: 244
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, September 24, 2011 - 10:26 pm: |
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it's a klv 60 and the radio is a galaxy DX 979. The review's I read on both sound real good. Thank you Len cef#189 |
Tech237
Moderator
Username: Tech237
Post Number: 1474
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 10:41 am: |
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In the past when I have done similar the answer was yes. In fact at one stage I had a car with 6 different radios in it, each had a feed ran directly to a separate fuse panel that was right at the battery.
This way, issues with one radio feed, did not effect teh other radios, but to be honest it really should not make any difference electrically as long as the feed to the battery is big enough to handle the total current plus a bit extra. I usually factor in 10% extra capacity.
Tech237
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Leonard
Intermediate Member
Username: Leonard
Post Number: 245
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 6:22 pm: |
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Thanks for the input. All I have to do is just find the time to do all the hook ups.
Len CEF#189 |
Moonraker
Intermediate Member
Username: Moonraker
Post Number: 288
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 7:14 pm: |
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8 ga wire would be more than enough but if you ever plan to go bigger install big wire the first time and be done with it. |
Mrgoody
Member
Username: Mrgoody
Post Number: 64
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 8:42 pm: |
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Hello Guy's...You might see my name in an earlier post (a few years ago) on here asking almost the same thing,but I need to know about this hookup as well.I want to run a uniden pc76xl with a 450 fatboy amp. in an 2005 Impala SS...is this possble to do without interupting the computer system or any thing else while operating this hookup. |
