B2B live feed for amp

gazz58

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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.

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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 . . .






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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!
 
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)?
 
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