Wiring in an additional amplfier questions

[nukemustang]

I have a 2007 211 currently with the following factory items: Clarion 280m and 480m amplifiers, with 6 new polk cabin speakers and the original polk sub in the factory plastic box.

I recently bought one of those Wetsounds HT-4 amps that was on sale, and a set of Roswell Airborne HLCD speakers from a member on here, and a new wetsounds 420SQ and RCAs to wire it all.

My question is in regards to the new amp. Should I open the black breaker box located under the walk-thru and wire the new amp into the breaker box to maintain the ability to completely isolate the amps from the batteries? Or should I wire the new amp directly to the battery? Another idea would be to re-wire the currently installed factory amps at the same time, i.e. run heavy gauge cable from the battery to a power distribution fuse block and then to the 3 amps to make sure they are getting the appropriate power?

I think adding the 4 or 6 gauge wire to the black breaker box would look "clean" but understand that may not be the most correct way of doing it.

I also am going to remove the plastic sub box and put an appropriately sized box back in there (with a new polk db 10" sub) on the floor to use the extra bulkhead space for the new amp. In the end the 280--> powering the sub, the 480--> powering 4 of the in-boats, and the HT-4 --> powering the towers.

Thoughts??

I did try to search this thread, but there are many threads pre 2010 time frame that no longer have the pictures in the threads themselves.

Thanks!

Tim

[swatguy]

The proper way would be to add the distribution block. Either way you have to buy power cable , why not just go buy the 0 gauge , run it from the main to a distribution block. You can use the old battery cables to cut them to the proper length to go from distribution block to the amps. It's much cleaner install and gives you more protection,
Just don't forget to do the negative side as well.


I'll let the experts chime in here , but being you are using the two Roswell 6.5 HLCD's I would think the better option would be to put the HT4 on the inboats and the 480 on the towers. Those 6.5 tower speakers will then get 200 watts or so which is about the peak for them ( you won't tell a sound difference between the 300ht4 and 200apx because it's only 6.5 speaker and that's the limiting factor). Then your inboats get 30 more watts per speaker from the HT 4 and the factory Polks will really appreciate that