What size ANL fuse should I put on each side of the BC5500?

Depends really. You could do two 150s, or two 300s. How is your system hooked up? Are there two powers from amp straight to battery under hood, or at the amp, or at a battery bank? Do you have a distro block? Or will you be fusing each wire seperately? Can you provide any other additional information that we could use to give you the best answer possible.

Two 250's would be fine. 

Thanks, for the fast response!  I'm going to be running (3) BC5500 and (2) C1600.2!  I'm in the process of getting (2) fused distribution blocks made.  One for the positive side and one for negative.  I just wasn't sure on the size fuse to use.

Thanks, for the fast response!  I'm going to be running (3) BC5500 and (2) C1600.2!  I'm in the process of getting (2) fused distribution blocks made.  One for the positive side and one for negative.  I just wasn't sure on the size fuse to use.

 

Well that block will make things much easier. I'm going to draw it out lol

 

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You could just place 3 500a fuses, you could do 6 150s, etc. There are many options. Remember, fuses aren't as crucial as they may seem. With that large of a system, I'm going to "assume", you know some what of what you're doing, so as long as you don't connect the pos and neg of the same battery, and say Oops, then you're fine man. That amp is rated to pull a MAX of 500amps. But you will never see this in real life. I would say, a 300 amp fuse per 5500 would do just fine. So that would be like, two 150s per amp basically, or one per hot wire.

That's a shit load of power lol. What are you running for subs?

 

 

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That's a shit load of power lol. What are you running for subs?

 

 

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Thats a bit normal now a days actually Kyle. If he's gonna be at finals, he'll fit right in. I swear, every vehicle at SBN was running at least 10k+ easy.

Also, I would recommend ToolMaker, he's a great guy with much better pricing than Project DB, (my opinon).

Thanks, for the fast response!  I'm going to be running (3) BC5500 and (2) C1600.2!  I'm in the process of getting (2) fused distribution blocks made.  One for the positive side and one for negative.  I just wasn't sure on the size fuse to use.

 

Well that block will make things much easier. I'm going to draw it out lol

 

So, lets say heres the block

 

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You could just place 3 500a fuses, you could do 6 150s, etc. There are many options. Remember, fuses aren't as crucial as they may seem. With that large of a system, I'm going to "assume", you know some what of what you're doing, so as long as you don't connect the pos and neg of the same battery, and say Oops, then you're fine man. That amp is rated to pull a MAX of 500amps. But you will never see this in real life. I would say, a 300 amp fuse per 5500 would do just fine. So that would be like, two 150s per amp basically, or one per hot wire.

 

 

I'll disagree with this. I think each amp should be fused individually. I've never liked these big fuse blocks for multiple amps. If one amp goes crazy and fails it could back feed to the other amps. Well lots of shit could happen. 

Thanks, Sencheezy!  To elaborate a lil more.........I'm getting (2) fused distribution blocks made (6) inputs and (8) outputs!  Each wire will have its own fuse.  I have (6) DC Audio Level (5) 15 M2's

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Thanks, Sencheezy!  To elaborate a lil more.........I'm getting (2) fused distribution blocks made (6) inputs and (8) outputs!  Each wire will have its own fuse.  I have (6) DC Audio Level (5) 15 M2's

 

No problem man, should be loud!

Also, I would recommend ToolMaker, he's a great guy with much better pricing than Project DB, (my opinon).

 

 

Please tell me how TM's pricing is better lol?

 

6 0ga input terminals  were $15 cheaper shipped than TM's. Oh, I also got them in less than a week. 

Here, you can see how mine is, its made for two bc5500s, 4 4/0 in, 4 4/0 out.

 

 

Also, I would recommend ToolMaker, he's a great guy with much better pricing than Project DB, (my opinon).

 

 

Please tell me how TM's pricing is better lol?

 

6 0ga input terminals  were $15 cheaper shipped than TM's. Oh, I also got them in less than a week. 

Just in my experience is all.