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Originally Posted by StoneBullet
Ok, so I did a little work on my system. I re-ran all my power, RCA, and speaker wires. That got rid of my ground loop. I got rid of the alpine door speakers and Boston dash speakers in favor of a set of Boston sl60 componets. I also got rid of the fosgate p200-2 I had pushing my fronts and got a kenwood excelon xxv-02a 4 channel amp and I'm going tonight to upgrade my rear speakers.
Now, the volt meter on the kenwood amp says I'm pulling 14.2-14.7 volts, which means I'm pushing around 1150 watts (give or take a few). Now my headlights and interior lights are dimming like crazy. I'm going to try hypergrounding before the car audio shop tries to sell me a $250 Stinger battery. I looked some stuff up, and from what I found I need to upgrade the following wires: negative from altenator to chasis, positive from alternator to battery and negative from battery to chassis. Is this correct? If so, should I go with 4 gage? Thank you all once again. And I'll post pics as soon as we clean up the wiring I messed up last night installing the new amp.
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If you are running a factory alt.(assuming it is factory) I find it very hard to believe that your head unit is giving you an accurate reading if it is holding 14+ volts especially with the stereo on.I would most def. try the big 3 like you have mentioned above.
1- Alt. + to battery +
2- Block - to battey -
3- Battery - to body -
4ga , should be fine .. I would suggest leaving all of the factory runs of wire an just adding the bigger wires .(sorry for digging up a older post.)