Battery Question

[bigred78797 10+ year member]

Ok during my install i dropped one of my batteries and it cracked... To avoid any chance of leakage in my car im not going to use it... Unfortunately i cant find any stores that sell the Orbitals... So im stuck with one Regular batt under the hood and One orbital Deep cycle in the rear... my question is... could i mix batteries i.e. have a orbital deep cycle and a optima yellow top on the rear... Two amps will be running on each battery the way i have it wired... i know ultimately they are all pulling power from the same circuit but if i have two amps directly connected to a yellow top and two directly connected to the orbital will there be a large difference in the amount of power that each gets?

Also where can i get those Tsunami Battery terminals with the voltage meter on them? Circuit City ran out.

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[Alpineinstaller 10+ year member]

find a store that seel any kind of metra dash kits or raptor accesorys tsunami is made by metra

 

[jsloan10 10+ year member]

"could i mix batteries i.e. have a orbital deep cycle and a optima yellow top on the rear... Two amps will be running on each battery the way i have it."

You will encounter charging problems if you mix the two batterys without an isolator.

Read this-

http://forum.sounddomain.com/forum/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=5;t=009326;p=

 

[Mr. Loki 5,000+ posts]

If the batteries match up IDENTICAL then yes an isolator will work in your case considering you have a solid alt.