What size fuse do I need?

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Topic: What size fuse do I need?

Posted By: 1DOPE230
Subject: What size fuse do I need?
Date Posted: August 16, 2006 at 7:14 AM

My system consists of a 1500w diamond amp and a 500w kicker amp. Can someone tell me what size amp I need to run? TIA

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Posted By: haemphyst
Date Posted: August 16, 2006 at 8:34 AM

How big is your power cable? That's what you are worried about, the fuse is to protect that, not the amps...

A #4 should be fused no higher than 150A (and I hope you are not using anything this small for that much amplifier), a #2 no higher than 225A, and a #0 no higher than 350A.

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Posted By: customak47
Date Posted: August 16, 2006 at 1:13 PM

goto the left toolbar on this site and click ohm's law under basics and then click ohm's law calculator, then plug in your wattage and voltage and you get amperage, and with what you posted, you would get 138.8889 amps, so round off to 150 amp fuse. For in the field, add up the fuses in all your amps ( say the diamond had 4 30 amp fuses and the kicker had 2 20 amp fuses) to equal 160 amp fuse and round off to closest value of fuse you have, basically*

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Posted By: 1DOPE230
Date Posted: August 17, 2006 at 12:22 AM

customak47 wrote:

goto the left toolbar on this site and click ohm's law under basics and then click ohm's law calculator, then plug in your wattage and voltage and you get amperage, and with what you posted, you would get 138.8889 amps, so round off to 150 amp fuse. For in the field, add up the fuses in all your amps ( say the diamond had 4 30 amp fuses and the kicker had 2 20 amp fuses) to equal 160 amp fuse and round off to closest value of fuse you have, basically*

thanks a lot. I didn't know about the calculator on the left.

Next question: Should I fuse both amps before the distribution block in addition to each individual amp as well? I plan to run a single 0 ga in with 2 - 4 ga out to each amp.