How to Hook Up a Car Amp Inside the House
- 1). Cut lengths of red and black wire with your wire cutters. The wires need to be long enough to reach from the amplifier to the power inverter.
- 2). Remove a half-inch of insulation from each end of the wires with your wire strippers.
- 3). Loosen the terminals of the inverter. Different brands of inverters will use different types of terminals, so act accordingly when loosening the terminals. Attach one end of the red wire to the terminal marked "+", the positive terminal, and one end of the black wire to the "-", the negative terminal.
- 4). Loosen the power terminals of the amplifier with a Phillips screwdriver or Allen wrench. Slide the other ends of the red and black wires into the terminals: red to positive, black to negative. Tighten the terminals to hold the wires in place.
- 5). Loosen the speaker terminals of the amplifier with a screwdriver or Allen wrench. Slide the ends of the wires attached to your speakers into the terminals. Be sure to match the positive leads of the speaker wires to the positive terminals of the amp, and the negative to the negative.