Speaker gauge wire.

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Topic: Speaker gauge wire.

Posted By: nickcervantes
Subject: Speaker gauge wire.
Date Posted: January 28, 2003 at 7:37 PM

I have a rockford 200s amp and Im gonna run my infinity kappas 62.5i's on one channel and my alpine typr r component 6.5 inch speakers on the other channel.

rockford 200s punch-100rms x 2 @ 2ohms

Infinity 62.5i-75watt rms, 225 watt peak

Alpine SPR-176A-50 watt rms, 200 peak

What gauge speaker wire should I use, anyone have an answer, 18 awg, 16 awg, 14, awg, 12 awg?

Replies:

Posted By: Velocity Motors
Date Posted: January 28, 2003 at 11:04 PM

Run 4 gauge for the power and 16 gauge for the speakers & then run 4 gauage for the ground as well. Use a distibution block to split the gauges to 8 gauge to the amps from the 4 gauge from the battery.

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Jeff
Velocity Custom Home Theater
Mobile Audio/Video Specialist
Morden, Manitoba CANADA

Posted By: Big Purds
Date Posted: January 29, 2003 at 2:32 AM

cant go wrong with that...

Posted By: nickcervantes
Date Posted: January 29, 2003 at 7:15 PM

the infinty 62.5is and the alpine typr r spr-176 A's are 6.5 speakers not amps.

Posted By: Velocity Motors
Date Posted: January 30, 2003 at 8:40 AM

I know that posted_image

. 16 gauge for the speaker is more than enough. You can go with whatever you want but anything larger I think is over kill for your system and a waste of money.

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Jeff
Velocity Custom Home Theater
Mobile Audio/Video Specialist
Morden, Manitoba CANADA

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