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Posted: October 18, 2009 at 5:56 PM / IP Logged

hello. i have a brand new 4/8 gauge Rockford buss bar. what can i do with it? can someone please tell me what it for or an example.

it has (3) 4 gauge inputs/(4) 8 gauge outputs.

thanks people.

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Posted: October 18, 2009 at 7:21 PM / IP Logged

It sounds to me like you have a Distribution block. It is designed to be fed with a single 4 Ga. and you can run 4 separate 8 Ga. wires to your amplifiers. There are 3 input locations for the 4 Ga. only for versatility.

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Posted: October 18, 2009 at 7:25 PM / IP Logged

no its a buss bar. that is what it says on the box. buss bar? -- posted image.

its the one on the right.

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Posted: October 18, 2009 at 7:32 PM / IP Logged

Looks a LOT like a fused distribution block to me.

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Posted: October 19, 2009 at 9:29 AM / IP Logged

i am an idiot wrote:

Looks a LOT like a fused distribution block to me.

Thats exactly what it is,I had one of those in my system running to (2) amps I didnt like using the 8 awg though it just didnt look good,I like the big o/1 to 4 awg wires showing.

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You can also use it to link capacitors together.

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Posted: October 19, 2009 at 10:03 AM / IP Logged

Or as a fishing weight. Those work well as fishing weights.

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DYohn wrote:

Or as a fishing weight. Those work well as fishing weights.

...or as an anchor for a very small boat.

It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."

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Posted: October 19, 2009 at 11:23 AM / IP Logged

A perfect example as to when to use the above fused distribution block is when you are running two cheap amps off of one 4 ga cable. Generally, cheap amps don't have fuses on the amp itself (which aren't actually 100% required) and that is why I specified cheap amps. With the above device you can add fuses sized specifically to the amps you are using so when the amp fails (remember, we're talking about cheap amps here) it will hopefully only blow the one smaller fuse instead of the larger (and more expensive) fuse under the hood.

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