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Message: <blockquote data-quote="helotaxi" data-source="post: 2205598" data-attributes="member: 550915">Since there is no need for an RMS reading on DC (since it doesn't exist) that is moot for this discussion.Playing the system drains the battery, plain and simple.  The voltage will drop with the system playing and the car off, there is no way around it.  The fix to this is to not play the system with the car off.  As far as voltage with the car running, 14.4 is not a hard an fast number.  Different cars have different voltages set in their regulators.  Most Fords, for example, will see a max of 13.8V.  Factor in the fact that you haven't upgraded any of the wiring under the hood and you are probably losing some volts and thus power to wire and ground resistance, lowering your number at the battery even further.  Until you've upgraded the big 3 none of your measurements really mean anything.</blockquote>

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