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<blockquote data-quote="hispls" data-source="post: 8755038" data-attributes="member: 614752"><p>You may or may not get by with just one additional battery on a 3K amp, really depends on variables we cannot predict and your listening habits. Never seen that brand of amp and I have no idea what board they use, but safe to say if you keep your voltage above 12.0V anything that isn't flea market junk should not be failing and even a lot of flea market stuff should be able to survive dips lower than that. Normally car amps are designed to function from 11.8 to 15V or thereabouts leaving some wiggle room for expected variance in alternator output or health of electrical system. Most car audio equipment will have protect circuitry that will protect or power down the unit when voltage gets outside of safe range.</p><p></p><p>You absolutely will NOT be able to get max power out of any amp if you can't provide enough current going into it, but depending on what you're doing you may well never see full power out of it regardless of how much battery you have.</p><p></p><p>None of this probably helps, but in short. Give it a whirl, keep an eye on the voltage, and do try to beef up your electrical system as much as possible ASAP to ensure best performance and reliability out of everything involved.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hispls, post: 8755038, member: 614752"] You may or may not get by with just one additional battery on a 3K amp, really depends on variables we cannot predict and your listening habits. Never seen that brand of amp and I have no idea what board they use, but safe to say if you keep your voltage above 12.0V anything that isn't flea market junk should not be failing and even a lot of flea market stuff should be able to survive dips lower than that. Normally car amps are designed to function from 11.8 to 15V or thereabouts leaving some wiggle room for expected variance in alternator output or health of electrical system. Most car audio equipment will have protect circuitry that will protect or power down the unit when voltage gets outside of safe range. You absolutely will NOT be able to get max power out of any amp if you can't provide enough current going into it, but depending on what you're doing you may well never see full power out of it regardless of how much battery you have. None of this probably helps, but in short. Give it a whirl, keep an eye on the voltage, and do try to beef up your electrical system as much as possible ASAP to ensure best performance and reliability out of everything involved. [/QUOTE]
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