difference between power wire and ground?

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Topic: difference between power wire and ground?

Posted By: ~pj~
Subject: difference between power wire and ground?
Date Posted: October 10, 2007 at 7:53 PM

is there a difference between power wire and ground wire or can i use power wire as ground wire?I am looking in to hooking up two batteries in parrelel. Somebody told me to run 0 guage wire from the positive to the positive, and the negative to the negative. Somebody else told me told me just to run 0 guage from positive to positive and then ground it to the chassis. Which would work so that it charges the secondary battery?

when your hooking up 2 subs in series-parrlel , which speaker wire do you use to go from the positive to the negative? Do you use the negative wire or the positive wire or both?

What about hooking up a single sub in series? Which wire do you use?

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Posted By: DYohn
Date Posted: October 10, 2007 at 8:03 PM

Wire is wire. Use the proper guage for the application.

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Posted By: sarcomax
Date Posted: October 11, 2007 at 11:01 AM

The prefered mobile audio wire is multi strand stuff... Please don't just put a solid chunk of copper between your batteries...

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Posted By: 2fas4ya
Date Posted: October 11, 2007 at 12:58 PM

What type subs do you have SVC or DVC?? In order to get series/parallel with just 2 subs they have to be DVC. Go here and enter in what you have and it will tell you which way you can connect it.
subwoofer diagram