1st MP3 in NH

Blue is a 100% percent here from my experience and readings. A fuse is simply a metal strip that will break when the amperage across it is too uch for the filiment to sustain. Its position doesn't matter once that amperage is crossed by a short or regualr power draw the fuse will blow. In the event of a short, wire cuts and touches metal, the amperage will increase toward infinity and the fuse will definitly blow.

Sir Nuke

certainly you all know....what the fuse does is in fact MELT. fuses are made of metals which will MELT at specific tempatures, which correspont to a specific amperate across them given their specific thickness.....

AND....not all fuses look alike.....many of the FANCY fuses for car audio today have slick transparent holders and the fuses are made like fuses of old where they are wires or strips inside glass tubes with conductors on each end.....(some of these fuses are somewhat expensive in my book, as much as a buck a piece for fuses) and then again many amp wiring kits I have seen use the same types of fuses that are in the fuse box of the car....which I might add much cheaper if you need to buy more.

1st MP3 in NH

Feel lucky, mine run atleast $11 retail per fuse.

2ManyTickets

OK I think I'm starting to understand more of what I need to do. Just to confirm: the two pieces I need from Scosche is MA03 for the piece that connects to the car and MA03R for the piece that connects to the factory HU right? Then I run the wires from the MA03R to the amp and the output wires from the amp to the MA03. Let me know if I have this correct.

Again thanks for the info!


Edit: I believe the Metra part numbers are 71-7901 & 70-7901. (Thanks Sir Nuke for the info!)

Sir Nuke

NO the metra numbers are NOT the ones you stated...they are 71-7903 and 70-7903.

Okay lets take this nice and slow how to use BOTH harnesses.

What you are going to do is hook the two harnesses up back to back. you will match the power wires, the gound wires the lighting wires, the AUX power wire (which you will also hook up your amp ON/OFF wire to) all the wires from one harness to the other will be hooked together EXCEPT your speaker wires. so you will end up with a the two connectors hooked together in the middle by THEIR WIRES....k? then you take the speaker wires from the harness that pluges into the Head Unit and run them to the speaker level inputs for the amp.......then you run your speaker outputs from the amp back and hook them to the speaker wires on the harness that plugs into the cars harness.....

if that is what you MENT...then YES you got it....