0 gauge wire making my truck die

Im having several problems with the system that i put into my 03 dodge ram quad cab 1500 recently. The first problem is that i have basic knowledge of putting stereos in and how to do it. My grandparents bought me a 5 farad cap,2 audiobahn flame q subs, 2 audiobahn 800x1 mono amps, and a o gauge dual amp wiring kit. (i know i know audiobahn isn't that good but it was free so i'm going to make it work.) I hooked it up like i would any other system. I have a wire from the battery to the cap and then from cap to the distributor block. From there one goes to each amp. the amps and cap and distributor block are within a foot from each other under my front seats. i have a optima red top battery in my truck right now. Here is my problems. 1. The truck idles rough now like it doesnt have power or something. It will die also sometimes because its idle drops so fast. This didnt start happening until i put the system in. 2. The lights on my truck still dim a whole lot when the subs are hitting. 3. Also after i put the system in my remote start on the truck doesnt work anymore it just turns on and then back off. To where it was working fine once the system was in there. Does anyone think that it is pulling way to much power from the motor or battery because of the 0 gauge wire. or is it because the amps are pulling a lot more watts from the battery. What can i do so that i might be able to fix this problem without having to reconstruct the motor or alternater.

sounds like you have a loose battery terminal, did you ready the big 3 sticky at the top of the fourm and do that as reccomended in your other post?2009 0-1000 Trunk WR 154.0DB 2009 1001+ Trunk WR

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I have not tackled the big three yet i'm going to try to do that next week. i'm just worried about it burning up my alternator or something like that. i checked the battery post they are tight as can be. It did the same thing when i had my stock battery in my truck then i put the optima battery in there thinking that it was going to help. i just want .to truck to run smooth and the lights to not dim. and its not like i have it blasting on high volumes. they are dimming really bad at low volumes also.

First thing I would do is pull the fuse from the amp wire and see if it goes back to normal if not then there is a problem somewhere, is it an aftermarket deck or factory, If factory where did you get the turn on wire?2008 Scion xB

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to answer some of the questions.. 1. the headunit is a pioneer flip out avic n1. 2. there is not a installation shop around here that i know of. 3. i rechecked the grounds and everything yesterday and everything was hooked up nice and tight and i didnt see any problems. the grounds are where it is bare metal. 4. my alternator amps are factory i think its around 130 or so. the stereo can be on 1 which is the lowest that it will go and it still dies. 5. i dont know about the strategy and how to reset it but i have drove the truck over 45 for 2 min and it still dies.

Just guessing here but there may be an issue with the remote start? can you bypass the remote start to take get it out of the system for the time being?

ok so i tested a couple of things... i unhooked the system from the battery and now my remote start works. But my truck still is dying when its in park and the lights are dimming when i hit the gas. and nit just seems like its not getting enought power still.so what im going to do is put the the stock battery back in and see because the optima battery is a year old and it came out of my camaro that i had i'm guessing that might be the problem. The truck was not doing this before i put in the system. i do know tho that the remote start would not work when the stock battery was in there. and the lights still dimmmed and the truck died. To be honest i have no clue whats wrong with it. I really could use some help on this one.