Fishchris
CarAudio.com Recruit
This is all just MPO of course. But I see so many posts about multiple batteries, bigger batteries, stronger batteries, etc.....
You all do understand that batteries simply “store power “ right ? They do not make it. One can have the biggest, baddest battery bank known to mankind..... but if you use more power than your making, you will eventually run out.
I’ve just come to believe it’s better to make as much power as you will need, right from the start. ALTERNATORS are where it’s at
Now, for big power bursts, nothing is better than super capacitors.
Right now I’m running a 320 amp alternator, a single $179 AGM 100 ah battery, and a 500 farad super capacitor. If I could afford it, I could see myself running another high powered alternator, or two, and another super capacitor or four... or 6 .....but still running a single $179 AGM battery. I just don’t have any need for more storage. Oh, and my 320 amp alternator costed Less than a lot of guys are spending on a single battery.
I do understand that if you have a little car, asking enough juice with a big, really strong alternator, or certainly, more than one alternator is going to be an issue. But with most trucks or SUV’s it’s usually pretty easy to make more juice to begin with.
I totally daydream about a 40Kwt system with four 500amp alternators, and like 6000 farads of supercapitors and ZERO batteries {and if four alts were not enough, I know how a guy could run 10 of them !}
You all do understand that batteries simply “store power “ right ? They do not make it. One can have the biggest, baddest battery bank known to mankind..... but if you use more power than your making, you will eventually run out.
I’ve just come to believe it’s better to make as much power as you will need, right from the start. ALTERNATORS are where it’s at
Now, for big power bursts, nothing is better than super capacitors.
Right now I’m running a 320 amp alternator, a single $179 AGM 100 ah battery, and a 500 farad super capacitor. If I could afford it, I could see myself running another high powered alternator, or two, and another super capacitor or four... or 6 .....but still running a single $179 AGM battery. I just don’t have any need for more storage. Oh, and my 320 amp alternator costed Less than a lot of guys are spending on a single battery.
I do understand that if you have a little car, asking enough juice with a big, really strong alternator, or certainly, more than one alternator is going to be an issue. But with most trucks or SUV’s it’s usually pretty easy to make more juice to begin with.
I totally daydream about a 40Kwt system with four 500amp alternators, and like 6000 farads of supercapitors and ZERO batteries {and if four alts were not enough, I know how a guy could run 10 of them !}