Wiring Question

Well my friend bought a couple of 10's from me and I told him he just needed an amp and the wiring kit for it. I went over to install it and he had got a 300 watt amp and a 1400 watt max amp wiring kit with a 5 g power wire and a 100 amp inline fuse. My question is this going to be a problem or just overkill? Thanx for any replies. And if it sounds like my friend is stupid its because of :smokin:

That fuse is too big... the fuse is only there to keep the wire from shorting out, heating up and making a car fire, and that wire should probably have a 60 amp fuse. Otherwise, the bigger the wire the better. He could have 1/0 gauge wire, and it would be fine. He can upgrade to better amps later on without having to worry about doing the wiring over again.

Good answear. :)

See, I'm learning :)

What's a 5 g wire system? The wire sizes I've only seen are even numbers until you get past 2gauge.

AWG (american wire guage) goes by single digits size steps but most wire is evens.

I wonder where you can get it? I've only ever seen 0/1, 2, 4, 8, 10, 12, 16, 18, 20 and 22 gauge sold anywhere...

ive seen it. but im not sure where.

scosche (or however the hell it's spelled) has kits with 5 and 9 guage...