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Old Jul 30, 2006 | 11:52 AM
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Does anybody have a diagram or something of how to hook up 2 amps?? I don't know if I'm gonna do this for sure, but I already bought a 4 channel amp to run my door speakers/sail panel speakers. And I may be possibly buying two 8's and a two channel amp. I don't know how too hook the second amp up. Can somebody help me out??
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Old Jul 30, 2006 | 01:43 PM
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Is this coming off the factory headunit? I know on my alpine I have 3 RCA outputs so I just run each RCA connection to an amp.
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No, its on an alpine 9856 H/U.
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Well, I have figured out that I run the power wire to a distribution block, and then that runs one power wire to one amp and one power wire to another. My H/U has 3 RCA outputs, so I can run my patch cables. I think my only question is what do I do about the remote wire to the second amp???
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Well, I have figured out that I run the power wire to a distribution block, and then that runs one power wire to one amp and one power wire to another. My H/U has 3 RCA outputs, so I can run my patch cables. I think my only question is what do I do about the remote wire to the second amp???
just run another little "jumper" wire from the rem lead of the first amp to the rem lead of the second amp
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Yeah, what he said. I just jumped mine from one amp to the other. There isn't much current there so it's not really a big deal.
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Cool, thanks. I probably won't be doing this anyways because it looks like I'm gonna get screwed out of the amp/sub I was supposed to buy.
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