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I have a 1600 watt amplifier wiring kit w/0.5f digital stiff cap and it has no instructions how can i get some?

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Place the amp where you are going to permanently mount it. The cap. should be as close to the amp as possible. Run the positive cable from the pos. terminal of the battery to the pos. terminal on the cap. Then from the cap's pos.terminal run a cable to the pos. terminal on the amp. Dont install the fuse into the fuse holder just yet. Make sure you place the fuse holder at most 10 inches or closer to the battery. Find a good ground point to run the negative cable to the cap. make this one as short as posible, use any good solid metal part of the car's chassis or bolt that runs into the body. Run another ground cable from that piont or nearby point to the amp's negative terminal. run the rca cables from the back of the head unit outputs to the inputs on the amp. Then run the small gauge remote wire from the amp remote output from the head unit to the remote turn-on terminal on the amp. run your speaker wires from your amp to your speakers. Install the fuse, it will spark a tiny bit when installed, its normal thats just your stiff cap and the caps inside your apm charging. Usually you charge the cap before you introduce it into the system to prevent that spark but a cap that size doesn't create a huge spark. good luck

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