Fusion AC-AK08E 8 Gauge Amplifier Wiring kit

A blister packed set of accessories and lengths of cable intended for the installation of a two channel amplifier. It includes 8 Gauge wire and also an RCA interconnect. When sold in with the Four Corner Pack EN-4CNR there is another 2 channel RCA lead included in the big box outside the blister pack. There are fixings and cable ties and lots of the connections are ready-crimped onto the wires’ ends as necessary.
– 1x 5M 8 Gauge Power Cable
– 1x 1M 8 Gauge Ground Cable
– 1x 5M 18 Gauge Remote Cable
– 2x 5M 18 Gauge Speaker Cable
– 1x 5M Standard RCA Interconnect
– 1x AUE Fuse holder
– 1x 60A AUE Fuse
– 1x 1.8M Protective Sleeving
– 8x Cable Ties
– 2x 8 Gauge Nickel Plated Ring Terminals (Fixed To Wire)
– 2x 8 Gauge Nickel Plated Fork Terminals
– 1x 18 Gauge Nickel Plated Fork Terminal (On Remote Wire)
– 2x 4.8mm Nickel Plated Female Speaker Terminals
– 2x 2.5mm Nickel Plated Female Speaker Terminals
– 2x Cable Rubber Grommets
Review by Adam Rayner
A handsome package, this wiring kit is pretty well comprehensive in that Fusion bother to also include a length of sheathing for running the power wire through the engine bay with some protection. Not all wiring kits include this. There are two lengths of really rather thin (18 Ga.) speaker cable included but they are really quite long at 5 metres. The power cable is good and flexible, with a genuinely phat 8 gauge set of coppery threadery running through it as described and the power rings and speaker terminals are well crimped on. That said, I did think my amplifier was a DFA (Does ‘Flap’ All) out of the box as it wouldn’t power up. I used another ‘known good’ amp with the wires and then worked out it was the long blue remote wire at fault. No voltage to the accessory terminal means silence. This was a real pain but with a tiny bit of a brain, anyone could work it out. The time it cost me in undoing stuff and trying other things merely meant that as I tested the speakers as part of a big package of stuff, I was able to listen to them on an expensive amplifier as well as the cheaper Encounter model the wiring kit was sold with. However, as a standalone product it is, as they say a ‘Ronseal Job’. Does what it says on the pack and will happily wire up an amp of up to 500 watts output. All I would suggest is use the skinny speaker wire provided on tweeters but get some cheap but thicker stuff for the rest of your speakers.
Build Quality 6.0
Appearance 8.0
Ease Of Installation 8.0
Effectiveness 9.0
Value For Money 9.0
Overall rating 8.0