B2B live feed for amp

[gazz58]

Hi there. I hope you don’t mind me asking. I have just bought a t6 that has had a subwoofer fitted under drivers seat and a amp fitted under the single passenger seat. The amp has a 16mm red cable going into it from the battery. It is fused. It looks well fitted and the sound is great. I was wondering, do you think I can take an extension off that 16mm wire to go to a ctec. I can’t see a problem splitting it with a bus bar or should I run another wire to the battery? It’s a day van type conversion I’m doing so I plan to put leisure battery behind the kombi seats. Cheers for your welcome views.

 

[Dellmassive]

yes you can . .

take the feed out the amp and run it into a new MIDI fuse box.


the run the AMP and CTEK from the new fusebox.

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example . . .

https://amzn.to/3apiGHj

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Mega & Midi Fuse Power Distribution Box

Compact power distribution & fuse box that distributes power theough a single mega link fuse into 4 midi or strip link fuses.

www.12voltplanet.co.uk

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[gazz58]

Got you, thanks so much. That will save a lot of work running a new cable etc.

 

[Howzat]

16mm is rated for 100A @ 12v so just make sure that's enough if the CTEK and amp are running at the same time. It should be unless it's a 1000w amp going full belt!

 

[gazz58]

I’ll take a look. Cheers.

 

[gazz58]

It’s 500w

Klaus amp xd500 e v2

JL amp xd500 3 v2

 

[Howzat]

Looks like you're good to go.

 

[gazz58]

Thanks to both of you for the reassurance. I’ve just ordered the midi 4 way fuse box so soon be up and running.

 

[Skyliner33]

example . . .

https://amzn.to/3apiGHj

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I was just looking at these, omg the price has shot up since you posted the link - its £31.33 when I click the link .

 

[RobFlynn]

Resurrecting this as I want to do something similar (here: Cable size for amps and split charger?) and am getting ending endlessly confused. This thread kinda hasn't helped! Fitting manuals for both my amps advise to use 8 AWG (8.4mm) cable so my assumption is that if I merge these into one main cable it would need to be 4 AWG (approx 21mm). The example above using 16mm is only for 1 amplifier and then the CTEK which people seem to be in agreement is big enough. How big do I need to go for my two amps and a CTEK (or equivalent)?