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<blockquote data-quote="Doxquzme" data-source="post: 8850761" data-attributes="member: 689267"><p><strong>"The battery negative is not ground, and your amp is not grounded because you connect to the battery. Your amps ground is going through the battery negative, and is not grounded until chassis."</strong></p><p></p><p>Exactly what I said. Guess there is some confusion on what I said,not going to go all through it again.</p><p></p><p><strong>"Never said the battery was an obstacle. I'll say it again, it's the same ground, it's not the same path to ground. You are adding your amps ground to your batteries ground, and creating added resistance you shouldn't, with no benefit."</strong></p><p></p><p>It's terminology, a generalization used to describe what I thought you were trying to express, maybe I misunderstood. Having added (adding to the existing cabling) 2/0 gauge to all the "under the hood" electrical,1/0 from alt to battery (the big three), the resistance added is fine and negated by a very large path to ground. Like I have said, there are valid reasons to do this; I've had great success doing it this way, as have others. As glue becomes as prevalent as welding and metal gets thiiner and plastice get introduced more in the manufacturing techniques, this type of grounding will become more prevalent (just like you have to do in older Corvettes). I feel that the article is very interesting, provides many with greater knowledge, in my book, always a good thing. It’s fairly recent (2021 if I recall) covers a broad spectrum of topics all relevant to this discussion and if you don’t feel like perusing it to glean additional insight, you prerogative. I think that we’ve beat this to death, time to move on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doxquzme, post: 8850761, member: 689267"] [B]"The battery negative is not ground, and your amp is not grounded because you connect to the battery. Your amps ground is going through the battery negative, and is not grounded until chassis."[/B] Exactly what I said. Guess there is some confusion on what I said,not going to go all through it again. [B]"Never said the battery was an obstacle. I'll say it again, it's the same ground, it's not the same path to ground. You are adding your amps ground to your batteries ground, and creating added resistance you shouldn't, with no benefit."[/B] It's terminology, a generalization used to describe what I thought you were trying to express, maybe I misunderstood. Having added (adding to the existing cabling) 2/0 gauge to all the "under the hood" electrical,1/0 from alt to battery (the big three), the resistance added is fine and negated by a very large path to ground. Like I have said, there are valid reasons to do this; I've had great success doing it this way, as have others. As glue becomes as prevalent as welding and metal gets thiiner and plastice get introduced more in the manufacturing techniques, this type of grounding will become more prevalent (just like you have to do in older Corvettes). I feel that the article is very interesting, provides many with greater knowledge, in my book, always a good thing. It’s fairly recent (2021 if I recall) covers a broad spectrum of topics all relevant to this discussion and if you don’t feel like perusing it to glean additional insight, you prerogative. I think that we’ve beat this to death, time to move on. [/QUOTE]
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