Subwoofer jumpers with electrical tape

[SnowDrifter]

Why the need for electrical tape? Just strip them to the length needed and put them in the terminal. Having bare wire sticking out doesn't gain you much

[Golitan11]

No I did this because both wires were not fitting in the terminal together. Those KnuKonceptz 12 gauge are huge...

[SnowDrifter]

Ahh gotcha

What you do in that case is get a box cutter or some wire strippers, trim a fair bit of strands off the wire, then twist them together and it will fit.

Or you can use a small distribution block. Or throw some ring terminals on the wire, attach the terminals to a bolt on the inside of the box, and wire the same bolt on the outside of the box

[Golitan11]

All right, when I will need to get the sub off the box in the future I will do so. But for now is it ok to keep them like this?

[Jonathan Tyler Ecton-Rodriguez]

All right, when I will need to get the sub off the box in the future I will do so. But for now is it ok to keep them like this?

yes lol i had 2 8awg stripped and wired like that in my L7's haha its fine

[bkolfo4]

Those jumpers only get half the current of the wire between the sub and amp, and they are very short (only applies to parallel wiring like your pic. A series jumper would have the same current as the positive and negative)..

Smaller wire is fine there if you redo it.

12 ga to the sub, 16 ga between terminals.

[N9neMillahhh]

if my wire's too big for the terminals, i usually solder the wires together, make a big solid chunk of metal, and use pliers and a hammer to kind of "condense" and "pack" the size smaller and circular so they fit, works majority of the time. i made two 10 AWG wires soldered look like a sinlge 12 AWG. thats what i usually do. i always use SHCA 12 AWG so it works great anyway. i've even seen people use dual input lookin things like they use on amps but for the terminals.