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Thanks for the suggestion @sprinklerman. I ended up getting the Sony XAV-AX100 off ebay for $450 so my search is over! My needs are pretty basic these days honestly. I used to get all crazy with my systems but now I just like the bass loud and the highs clean enough to hear the lyrics. No time...

Awesome. Bout to buy one off ebay right now!

That looks like it would do the trick actually. When you're using maps through CarPlay, does it limit what you can do on the head unit at all? Any annoying stuff you've run into with it at all?

I've had the same Kenwood touch screen for years now and it doesn't play nicely with my new iPhone. The bluetooth feature has been broken on my HU for years so I've been using the aux cable. No headphone port on iPhone 7 makes that a big problem ? So what's a good touch screen head unit to use...

He didn't even have a BBB page when I went to file my complaint, so that's weird. Maybe he got it deleted somehow. But if it wasn't for me reporting him to the BBB, my issue never would've gotten solved.

Just wanted to bump this and say that Dominick Iraggi is a scumbag business man and luckily now he has a file with the BBB that has a negative report by myself. If anyone else has had a poor experience due to his deceitful tactics, I suggest you go and add your story to the BBB page. He...

I just bought two brand new XS D3400's and charged each one fully before installing them. Alternator is brand new also. They are wired in parallel with no isolator. I read that when testing for amp draw that I should remove the ground connection from the main battery, and then connect the DMM...

I'll definitely look into this, and you're probably right because I had to wire in some resistors to make my LED turn signals work. They don't stay on when the truck is off.. but I'm sure it's the same concept.

Oh I guarantee it's in the add ons somewhere. My wiring is all over the place after all the stuff that's been added over the years by several different installers. I wish I could just start fresh with a new truck, but money doesn't allow for that right now.

If the door sensor was staying open, my retractable steps would stay down, which they don't, so I don't think its the door sensor. I'll check the glovebox, I read about that somewhere else also. I'm going to test the bulb and everything else this weekend while reading the amperage draw from...

I definitely need to figure out why that dome light is staying on. It's weird because it's not even fully on, it's barely on and visible at all. I've made sure that no switches are in the on position and I've sat in the truck for 15 minutes after locking it and setting the alarm and it never...

Will my multi meter be able to perform the tests outlined in the previously mentioned Youtube video that explains how to locate the circuit that's drawing the power?

wow thank you! that should definitely work. I hope I can figure it out on my own so I don't have to pay my audio shop $70/hr to trace the power draw. I've never used a clamp meter before but I'm sure it can't be too hard to figure out.

Under $100 isn't bad then. What model do you use?

Do you have a clamp meter you could recommend that doesn't cost an arm and a leg?

This is a great video, thank you for the link. Only thing is I need to figure out how to perform these tests on my truck with two batteries. His demonstration only used 1 battery. Google seems to have some answers on that which I'm reading up on now. I can already tell it's going to be a huge...

I've been having a lot of trouble with a phantom power draw on my 04 Chevy 2500HD. I've got two XS Power D3400 batteries under the hood wired in parallel with a Mechman E-series 250a alternator powering them. My system consists of a Kenwood DNX-8120 HU feeding an Orion HCCA-D5000 sub amp, and a...

STATUS UPDATE: Iraggi has had my alternator at his shop for over a month. Still no sign of it being repaired. Last time I talked to him was on 1/20 and he said my alternator would be repaired in 3 - 5 business days. We are not on the 7th business day from that statement. No call, no email, no...

I dunno know man, the alternator I got from Mechman looks and feels beefy as hell. It's on a whole new level compared to Iraggi. I will say shipping was a bit slow, almost a month from when I ordered it. And I don't know how their customer service is if I run into any problems. But judging by...

Yeah he got it back on 12/24. Of course he never reached out to me about it but I got him to confirm receipt on 1/6. I asked when he would be repairing it and sending it back and now he says he's going to file a claim (which he didn't want to do for me before) and he won't be repairing my...

Thanks for the cycling tips. I gotta find something to discharge them with.

Stay as far away as you possibly can from Iraggi. Unreliable alternators and terrible customer service.

I got the batteries tested at Pep Boys and they both failed. I had cycled each of them once and they were each above 12.6 when they put them on the tester. Anybody know what the numbers on the slips mean exactly? Battery 1 Battery 2

Oh ok, I though you had to connect something to the battery to create a power draw on discharge. I've cycled once so far, and after a day of charging they are back up to 12.6 and 12.9. I'll post up with results after i do this a few more times and take the batteries in for testing at the local...

My alternator was all fucked up. It was an Iraggi model that got all weird on me and started dropping in charging voltage. Originally it charged in the 14v range, but then dropped to below 12v and was charging in the 10v range. Never keeping my batteries full. Eventually it just stopped charging...

Can you tell me how you cycled your batteries exactly? I've never done it before and I want to make sure I'm doing it right. What did you use to create a power draw? What voltage did you let them drop to before you started charging again? And what kind of charger were you using to charge them...

Interesting. I am going to put mine on some 2x4's.

I've always heard that batteries discharge faster when sitting on concrete too. Better safe that sorry I guess.

Yeah they were on concrete. I'll raise up on on something for the cycling. I messed up by not having them on the charger for sure. Plus my Orion sub amp was staying on for some reason which drained the **** out of them real fast. I'm just hoping I don't have to spend another $520 on two new...

I'll give them a cycle and re-charge and see how they do. They were down really low though so I'm worried about them. Battery 1 was at 2.33v and Battery 2 was at 4.91 and I've read that these batteries get damaged if you let them sit anywhere below 12.6 for too long.

Just added all the photos to my original post.   ---------- Post added at 01:25 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:25 PM ----------   The one that has the bulge is actually the one that is sitting at 12.3v. Check out the photos I just added to my original post.

Ok I'll take some right now. gimme 5 min

I have two XS Power D3400 batteries that I've been running for the past two years. Recently my alternator went out which caused them to drain completely and sit in my truck dead for over a month. I recently took them out and charged them both up. It took 3 days for each one to charge above...

Yup that's the plan. It should be back to Iraggi's shop now. Just got my Mechman 250a alternator in yesterday too. Took almost a month to arrive! Looks super solid and the packaging job was perfect compared to Iraggi's.

Yeah I wouldn't expect much of a response from him on that question. He'll just ignore it

Yeah I'm not even gonna try discussing it with him on his pages. I've read that if you are local to Iraggi, he's a good company to go with because you can just head to his shop and he'll fix it up. But for those who are out of state you're basically SOL (as I've experienced).

I thought Mechman was one of the better companies to buy an alt from?

The other two times he shipped them back to me after repairs they arrived well packed and safe. I will make it clear that I need it to be packed properly this time and I'm sure he will since neither of us want to be going through this BS. It's just lame that he couldn't have done the right thing...

That's not how shipping insurance works. If the item being shipped is damaged in transit, the sender's shipping payment is refunded and then the shipping company will pay you back for how much you claimed the item being shipped was worth. So what Iraggi did by cutting corners on the insured...

Yes but he's a bit salty now that I called him on his bull$h!t. I'm sure he'll do the right thing though. Just pisses me off how I have to chase this guy around to even get a response, and how he really makes me WORK to get the use of his wonderful lifetime warranty. See when I am performing...