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Can my alternator handle the system I'm about to put in?
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<blockquote data-quote="robertoyoung08" data-source="post: 7277266" data-attributes="member: 613565"><p>i did upgrade battery man. look at my signature.</p><p></p><p>well this is how it happened. first i upgraded to yellow top just cus. then i got bigger system which is the one i have now. i started getting dimming and voltage would get low. so i upgraded to a kinetik 1800 this january hoping it would fix my voltage and dimming. i was set on getting a better battery and not having to mess with any wires on the car, cus the battery was just plug and play, nothing hard or much to mess up, but it still didnt help. so THEN i did big in febuary and it helped my voltage but dimming is still here. so thats why NOW im doing h/o alt and hopefully this should take care of everything for good. it makes sense though, cus my stock alt is only about 80 or 100 amps tops. so its not enough power to keep up with all the electrical in the car plus another extra 1500 watts of audio, its too much. my car has a lot of electrical as it is and all this extra equipment is just too much strain. same for yours, but it can be different in every car.</p><p></p><p>my friend has a saturn ion and is running similar watts on a stock electrical with just a kinetik 2400 and his voltage never drops lower than 14volts no matter what. kind of trippy to me. but i guess it just depends on the demand of the electricity on the alt and how much it can spare. i hope you dont have to buy an alt, cus trust me, i didnt either, ive been avoiding buying one for almost 2 years now, even though i KNEW it was coming, but i kept avoiding it, now i just have to do it, its what i get for wanting all this loud music lol. all part of car audio.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="robertoyoung08, post: 7277266, member: 613565"] i did upgrade battery man. look at my signature. well this is how it happened. first i upgraded to yellow top just cus. then i got bigger system which is the one i have now. i started getting dimming and voltage would get low. so i upgraded to a kinetik 1800 this january hoping it would fix my voltage and dimming. i was set on getting a better battery and not having to mess with any wires on the car, cus the battery was just plug and play, nothing hard or much to mess up, but it still didnt help. so THEN i did big in febuary and it helped my voltage but dimming is still here. so thats why NOW im doing h/o alt and hopefully this should take care of everything for good. it makes sense though, cus my stock alt is only about 80 or 100 amps tops. so its not enough power to keep up with all the electrical in the car plus another extra 1500 watts of audio, its too much. my car has a lot of electrical as it is and all this extra equipment is just too much strain. same for yours, but it can be different in every car. my friend has a saturn ion and is running similar watts on a stock electrical with just a kinetik 2400 and his voltage never drops lower than 14volts no matter what. kind of trippy to me. but i guess it just depends on the demand of the electricity on the alt and how much it can spare. i hope you dont have to buy an alt, cus trust me, i didnt either, ive been avoiding buying one for almost 2 years now, even though i KNEW it was coming, but i kept avoiding it, now i just have to do it, its what i get for wanting all this loud music lol. all part of car audio. [/QUOTE]
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