Sound System Install 1994 232 Gulfstream

[Germanmattlanta]

I am sure this is going to offend some of you fishing purists. I intend to use my 232 Grady mainly as a sandbar vessel, cruiser, and family fun boat. I know blasphemy but I need to satisfy all aboard.

I am installing a Fusion RA210 unit. I want to run 2x 6.5" speakers on the head unit. I will also power 4x 8" speakers via a 1000 Watt amplifier, and two tower speakers and subwoofer via another 500 Watt amplifier. This will be my first installation of a system and I wonder if you could check my work/thinking.

My understanding is that I would run a 1 Gauge fused wire from the house battery under the helm, from there I would use a distribution block to go down to 4 Gauge wire to power each amplifier. Is this correct or overkill? I do not want to burn my boat down and want to install this as safe as possible.

 

[Fishtales]

Sounds ok from here. I did the same with a Fusion Head to a pairs of 8" speakers in the helm, a smaller pair in the cabin (can't remember size) and the the Fusion 2 channel amp (just using 1 channel) for two additional 8" speakers that I cut in to the cockpit. Was going to do a sub but don't need it.