Car audio guru, I have found him! His name is Jason!!

[avs20 10+ year member]

Ok guys..im not sure where this belongs, so I figured general would be the best place for it. I was talking to a guy about HU's, and got to talking about eclipse decks. Apparently I am in the dark about this, but if Jason said it, it must be true! I could not stop laughing. He is still arguing with me about this. Enjoy.

[12:27] yeah my friend had an eclipse deck... that thing was pretty nice

[12:27] but it would always cut out

[12:27] the deck needs its own like 8 gauge power wire from the batt

[12:27] and when you run a pretty big power drawing stereo and not enough juice it turns off

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[Loud3 10+ year member]

That dude is a GENIUS!

Why didn't I think of that!?!?!

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

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If the Eclipse is anything like the Alpine V-Drive line of internal head unit amps (I'm not that familiar with Eclipse's offerings), then he's correct, you need a seperate power cable run to the battery.

Then again, I'm not sure about Eclipse. Regardless, running a seperate ground wire to the battery is a good way to get rid of any inducted noise problems you may have...

 

[UndercoverPunk 5,000+ posts]

8g, lolololol!

 

[iceteebone 5,000+ posts]

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If the Eclipse is anything like the Alpine V-Drive line of internal head unit amps (I'm not that familiar with Eclipse's offerings), then he's correct, you need a seperate power cable run to the battery.

Then again, I'm not sure about Eclipse. Regardless, running a seperate ground wire to the battery is a good way to get rid of any inducted noise problems you may have...

i have ran 2 seperate eclipse decks and they do not need 8 gauge power wire. if it's the 8053 or 8454 or similar, they don't even have internal amps. although i would recommend grounding it directly to the battery.

 

[req 5,000+ posts]

yeaaa. well. then why does my brothers, and about 5 others (that ive installed trhough circuit city) work like a charm with the 16~18awg wire on a stock vehicle?

lol. and i would just tap ignition\constant from the ignition harness and make a new fatty ground with like 12awg and an inline fuse before i run straight off the battery. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif

 

[hoss 5,000+ posts]

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If the Eclipse is anything like the Alpine V-Drive line of internal head unit amps (I'm not that familiar with Eclipse's offerings), then he's correct, you need a seperate power cable run to the battery.

not exactly... it is recomended from the manufacturer that you use a seperate cable from the batt, but it is hardly neccesary.

when i ran my alpines HU power, i used only the supplied wiring harness with the fuse cut off and had no problems.