I'm interested in adding an isolator to my car, but how big of one?

[jus2sho 10+ year member]

How do I go about choosing the correct size isolator for my setup? I'm currently running two air compressors and 2 amps totaling 2000 watts. HELP! The isolator that I'm looking at is the Stinger SR200, but i'm not sure if this i sufficient. TIA

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[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

uh, why? just wire up your shit in parallel, either way the load on your alternator wont be much different. How many batteries do you have to start with?

 

[jus2sho 10+ year member]

I'm looking to add a second battery. It would be pretty smart to add an isolator just so the main starting battery doesn't drain from the audio/compressors running while the car is off. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/*******.gif.a649d21efc0d1fd4890a6428166586c1.gif

 

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

I'm looking to add a second battery. It would be pretty smart to add an isolator just so the main starting battery doesn't drain from the audio/compressors running while the car is off. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/*******.gif.a649d21efc0d1fd4890a6428166586c1.gif

I guess //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif if you have all that stuff in the first place, you should be running multiple batteries in parallel banks already. Not that id know about anything like that //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/uhoh.gif.c07307dd22ee7e63e22fc8e9c614d1fd.gif

 

[jus2sho 10+ year member]

ttt