Using 2 amps.

[Excale]

Hi there,
i have my back speakers and 12" sub hooked up to my amp but it sounds really crap and i hardly get any power for the sub, my mate is going to give me his 300watt kenwood amp to use for my back speakers and i'll use my old amp just for my 12" sub. How does this work? how do i get power to the second amp? Thank you any help is really appreciated.

Brad

[HCVP]

If you are running both a set of speakers, and a sub of an amp, i can only assume it is a 4 channel amp.

In that case, there is no more power to be gained from disconneting the rear speakers from it, because you can only bridge 2 of the channels as it is to drive the sub. All you will end up with is exactly what you have now, but 2 spare channels being unused....

[AUSFITTER]

What size power cable are you running at the moment? You can put a distributor block on the end of your original power cable and then run 2 new lengths of cable from the block to the amps. The reason i ask what size power cable you already have, is cause if it is pretty small, you may want to look at getting some heavier gauge cable to allow the current to flow with less restriction.

[Excale]

What size power cable are you running at the moment? You can put a distributor block on the end of your original power cable and then run 2 new lengths of cable from the block to the amps. The reason i ask what size power cable you already have, is cause if it is pretty small, you may want to look at getting some heavier gauge cable to allow the current to flow with less restriction.

Im running a good size power cable. Yeah that could be the answer...couldn't i just add more wire to the power cable and share it with both amps? and do the same with rem and ground? or is that un-safe?

[HCVP]

Did you not read my reply?

Unless you want to use the 2ch amp your being given to bridge to the sub, and bridge the 4ch to drive a set of speakers, then there is no point in going out and buying additional power cable because you will not achieve anything.

[Excale]

Did you not read my reply?

Unless you want to use the 2ch amp your being given to bridge to the sub, and bridge the 4ch to drive a set of speakers, then there is no point in going out and buying additional power cable because you will not achieve anything.

My amp is 3CHN not 4 and okay i guess i'll do that. I have the amp now. So is it safe to just wire some more cable onto the power cable, rem and ground and connect it to the new amp aswell? so i'll have them both running from the same cables but i split them to be used on 2 amps? Will it blow anything?

Thanks for your help, i appreciate it

[HCVP]

No such thing as a 3 channel amp to my knowledge, best just posting up the model numbers of each one.

If at any point you wish to run a second amp, just do it properly and buy a wiring kit. Besides running power and ground cablees, you will also need a second set of RCA's to send signal from your H/U to your amp.

You can use the same grounding points if you want, allthough i reccomemnded using a seperate point for each amp. The REM wire can be spliced as it's only a trigger wire and has nothing to do with power or signal.