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<blockquote data-quote="Hellrazor" data-source="post: 62288" data-attributes="member: 544575"><p>You may have already read the answer but let me explain further and help some more. I am running 4 different batteries in my system. They are all connected together so as the altenator spins, it charges all the batteries equally. If one goes bad, it can pull down the others as well, as it gets weak. When the truck is turned off, having the additional batteries enables me to play my system longer before I have to grab the jumper cables and have someone pull up to my open hood. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif</p><p></p><p>Now, when the truck is running, only the juice that is put out by the alt is going to the amps. If you run a stock altenator (most put out from 80-120amps) then your car needs most of those amps and your amplifiers want some as well. Most high powered amplifiers want 40-60 to even more amps to run efficiently. Your altenator cannot keep up with the demand so when a heavy bass note hits, you'll see your lights dim. God help you if you are in the raid, high beams on, fog lights, wipers, a/c, fan and everything else on...most cars will almost go dead trying to keep up with a big system added to it as well. First thing you should get is a 1 farad or larger capacitor. This will help your amplifier keep up with the amps you have left to give it. It will feed the surges your amp needs when the system peaks. The general rule is 1 farad cap for every 500 watts. The more you have the merrier but not that much beneficial. The second thing is if you are running alot of things that require alot of power (amps, lights, fogs, accessories, etc) then you should really look into getting either a high output altenator or even adding a second altenator to run your system off of. Both of those options can be costly in the neighborhood of $500 and up. If you don't do either of those and you continue to put a heavy drain on your cars electrical system, you will start to and continue to burn out altenators and batteries as they won't be able to keep up with the demands that you will be putting on them. Hope this helps....</p><p></p><p>Peace...(yeah,right!)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hellrazor, post: 62288, member: 544575"] You may have already read the answer but let me explain further and help some more. I am running 4 different batteries in my system. They are all connected together so as the altenator spins, it charges all the batteries equally. If one goes bad, it can pull down the others as well, as it gets weak. When the truck is turned off, having the additional batteries enables me to play my system longer before I have to grab the jumper cables and have someone pull up to my open hood. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif[/IMG] Now, when the truck is running, only the juice that is put out by the alt is going to the amps. If you run a stock altenator (most put out from 80-120amps) then your car needs most of those amps and your amplifiers want some as well. Most high powered amplifiers want 40-60 to even more amps to run efficiently. Your altenator cannot keep up with the demand so when a heavy bass note hits, you'll see your lights dim. God help you if you are in the raid, high beams on, fog lights, wipers, a/c, fan and everything else on...most cars will almost go dead trying to keep up with a big system added to it as well. First thing you should get is a 1 farad or larger capacitor. This will help your amplifier keep up with the amps you have left to give it. It will feed the surges your amp needs when the system peaks. The general rule is 1 farad cap for every 500 watts. The more you have the merrier but not that much beneficial. The second thing is if you are running alot of things that require alot of power (amps, lights, fogs, accessories, etc) then you should really look into getting either a high output altenator or even adding a second altenator to run your system off of. Both of those options can be costly in the neighborhood of $500 and up. If you don't do either of those and you continue to put a heavy drain on your cars electrical system, you will start to and continue to burn out altenators and batteries as they won't be able to keep up with the demands that you will be putting on them. Hope this helps.... Peace...(yeah,right!) [/QUOTE]
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