Alright I thought I read somewhere that the distribution block fuses were suppose to be less or more than each amp's fuses so that the fuses would blow before the amps fuses do... but maybe I am wrong
I read more they said it's based on the size of the wire more than current draw from the amp, but they all go hand-in-hand.
Do ya'll think this will work...
1/0awg from +12v to 200A inline fuse, then 1/0awg to the fused distribution block in the trunk, which splits into two 4awg outputs w/ 130A fuse for the DLS A6 (140A) and 60A fuse for the JL (60A).
so if my amp has (2) 80 amp fuses and i go with a 1/0 guage power wire, and the distribution block has a 250 amp fuse... do i have to get higher amp fuses for my amp??? .....confused
"do i have to get higher amp fuses for my amp??? .....confused"
Here is how it works: Your Amp has fuses on it to protect the amp itself. Your wire has a fuse on it to protect the wire from carrying too much current and could cause your battery to explode. To answer your question, No, you do not update the fuses on your amp.
so (2) 80 amp fuses(160 together) on my amp will go fine with a 250 amp fuse on my dist. block along with a 1/0 guage power wire.... because the amp will shut off long before the 250 amp fuse will blow right??
Because this is a very common mistake with people. Mathcing your amp sizes isn't a "bad" thing to do, but you are not getting the most out of your wire. What is the point of getting wire than can easily handle 200 amps and only putting a 160 amp fuse on it? Adding a bigger fuse allows for more stuff to be added to it in the future.
......or say if i have a 300 amp fuse on the dist block. wont that and the 1/0 guage wire draw too much current and constanley cause the Amplifiers (2) 80 amp fuses to blow?
the fuse being bigger then needed wont give you more power causing other fuses to blow, the amps are what tells it how much power to pull, just run a 200A under the hood and in the rear where the spliter is use the closest fuse size you can find for each split, one 130A fuse or closest, and 1 60amp fuse or closest. Also, you dont want to go to much higher, more of lower then the rating if you have to, most fuses still handle more power then they are rated but not by to much, and as long as your amp isnt constantly pulling that amount of power, you wont have any problems, amps do different amounts of power at diff. frequencies.
John kicker, they 2 80amp fuses wouldnt blow still unless you have a problem, really you dont need fuses but they are there to protect your equiptment incase of a surge or short. Ive ran plenty of amps without fuses straight from the battery in the rear without any problems. One other thing i also do, i put a fuse under the hood and one on the other end of the wire run before it connects to the battery this way if anything happens like a car accident or anything and it slices the wire or anything.... fuses pop and hopfully save my equiptment
yeah that makes sense. so i should have no problem with this setup... 1/0 guage wire, 300 amp fuse on distubution block, and my hifonics bxi1606d with (2) 80 amp fuses?
