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What fuse or breaker for 2 PG Amps?

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Topic: What fuse or breaker for 2 PG Amps?

Posted By: sunshine
Subject: What fuse or breaker for 2 PG Amps?
Date Posted: August 11, 2004 at 3:30 PM

I am rewiring my car for my new PG amps, and I want to know what am fuse or what circuit breaker should I use? I will be running a 0/1 awg power wire to a distribution block (perhaps a fused dist block) where the wire will split into two 4 awg power wires. The two amps are Ti 600.2 and a Ti 500.4.

I was also going to seperately fuse each of the two 4 awg wires as well, and I will use the fuses recomended by PG in the owners manual.

So, in addition to the two seperate 4 awg fuses, what should the main 0/1 awg fuse be?

-a

PS - what is a good inexpensive source for power wire?



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1991 Mazda Rx-7
Alpine HU w/iPod adapter
PG 600.2Ti, Alpine 35x4
Optima Yellow



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Posted By: stevdart
Date Posted: August 11, 2004 at 4:36 PM
Look at knukonceptz for everything you inquired about.  The fuse rating for a 0/1 gauge wire is stratospheric, so you can just fuse it at the combined amp fuse ratings.

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Posted By: envoy62
Date Posted: August 11, 2004 at 10:09 PM

calculate the max current for each amp and sum them up. Then select the next higher fuse rating compared to the combined current.



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Posted By: Charles_R_H
Date Posted: August 12, 2004 at 11:52 AM
go with the circuit breaker, no more money dished out for fuses

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Posted By: Charles_R_H
Date Posted: August 12, 2004 at 11:56 AM

do you really want to run your pricey equipment off of cheap wiring?



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ELECTRONICS RUN OFF OF SMOKE, WHEN YOU LET THE SMOKE OUT THEY STOP WORKING





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