Battery question

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

whatever
just hook it up according to the battery, and youll be fine

batts normally last about 5-6 years, you arent gonna find a way to kill it faster than that.l.......

if you are THAT worried about it, get yourself a small battery charger and run a charge on your batteries once every couple of months....

Ok lets take 2 same sized batteries even but different technologies. They will have different charge and discharge characteristics on top of a different load due to their location. One would always be lagging behind the other and being different can make for even a far greater difference..sure it may work but it is not ideal.

 

[loopkiller 10+ year member]

whatever
just hook it up according to the battery, and youll be fine

batts normally last about 5-6 years, you arent gonna find a way to kill it faster than that.l.......

if you are THAT worried about it, get yourself a small battery charger and run a charge on your batteries once every couple of months....

I hope that is sarcasm. If not, you are a complete tool. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

maybe an exaggeration, but not sarcasm....

while it may or may not be ideal, it does work, quite well i might add.

espically in OP's situation

he just neds a little something in the back to keep the voltage up......any small battery would work back there.....either a kinetic 1400, a small YT come to mind....

its just a smarter move to get something small and toss it back there, then to get a lets say a kinetic 2000 or 2400 in the front, and a 1400 in the back.....thats just spending way too much money on it.

ya know?

batteries do last that long if you treat them properly BTW

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

btw, the front battery in my car has been there for about 5 years, and i have beat the shit out of it......dropping the whole back down to 8.7 volts.....while fun, is really bad.....but guess what, it still works...

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

maybe an exaggeration, but not sarcasm....
while it may or may not be ideal, it does work, quite well i might add.

espically in OP's situation

he just neds a little something in the back to keep the voltage up......any small battery would work back there.....either a kinetic 1400, a small YT come to mind....

its just a smarter move to get something small and toss it back there, then to get a lets say a kinetic 2000 or 2400 in the front, and a 1400 in the back.....thats just spending way too much money on it.

ya know?

batteries do last that long if you treat them properly BTW

mixxing the sizes isn't great either. like for 1400 and a 2400 a person would be better off doing 2 hc2000's. You can argue and say "this worked or that worked" for XXX amount of time thing is it wouldnt be ideal..that is where I am coming from. You keep things more balanced they will last longer.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif

 

[Lakota 5,000+ posts]

I don't really find fusing before the 2nd battery necessary. You have to be a goof to short circuit something right there and there's already a fuse at the first battery protecting the wire from over current.

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

I don't really find fusing before the 2nd battery necessary. You have to be a goof to short circuit something right there and there's already a fuse at the first battery protecting the wire from over current.

If you get a short anywhere after the first fuse (engine/firewall) not having that fuse would still allow the back battery to feed power into the short and create a potential fire.

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

I don't really find fusing before the 2nd battery necessary. You have to be a goof to short circuit something right there and there's already a fuse at the first battery protecting the wire from over current.

if the wire shorts out anywhere between the batteries, his car will burn down

fusing at both batteries will protect that.

shit can happen...

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

mixxing the sizes isn't great either. like for 1400 and a 2400 a person would be better off doing 2 hc2000's. You can argue and say "this worked or that worked" for XXX amount of time thing is it wouldnt be ideal..that is where I am coming from. You keep things more balanced they will last longer.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif

i cant disagree with that

my question is how much longer..?

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

i cant didagrtee with that
my question is how much longer..?

potentially years

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

hmmm

that may be worth it....

i might run sans in the front if it makes that much of a difference

 

[loopkiller 10+ year member]

I don't really find fusing before the 2nd battery necessary. You have to be a goof to short circuit something right there and there's already a fuse at the first battery protecting the wire from over current.

I generally find your posts to be decent and informative. I am wondering if someone jacked your account after reading this post. This is about as dumb of a statement as I have ever heard from someone who seems rather knowledgeable about car audio. I would hope you might rethink that statement. Why even fuse the front battery at all then? If you are so sure that a short is impossible, there are never any need for fuses, right? Great advice to give the people who are learning our hobby. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wow.gif.23d729408e9177caa2a0ed6a2ba6588e.gif

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]