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<blockquote data-quote="helotaxi" data-source="post: 1764745" data-attributes="member: 550915">The fact that the tech was getting higher voltage up front than you are getting in the rear indicates even more strongly to me that you have a bad connection somewhere.knu--I see where you are coming from with this but draining voltage down to below 11V is basically a full discharge on a battery.&nbsp; If you are constantly dipping into the battery reserve (long droning bass notes, a lot of transients, heavy bass guitar, etc...) having more reserve is still not fixing the problem.&nbsp; It is only masking it.&nbsp; It will still kill the alt in the long run and depending on the batteries, they will likely go as well.&nbsp; Regardless of how big the reserve is if you are averaging more out than in, it will eventually run dry.&nbsp; If you are draining one battery, you will drain any number of batteries, it will just take longer.&nbsp; It will also take longer to refill once they are drained.&nbsp; And until they are recharged, they are a larger load on the alt.&nbsp; If he was only momentarily dipping into the reserve of the battery and then only doing so infrequently, another battery might possibly be in order, but infrequent and momentary dips into the reserves don&#039;t drain a battery down toedit:There is no way that 2600 watts is coming out of this system with music unless there is some serious clipping involved.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="helotaxi, post: 1764745, member: 550915"] The fact that the tech was getting higher voltage up front than you are getting in the rear indicates even more strongly to me that you have a bad connection somewhere. knu--I see where you are coming from with this but draining voltage down to below 11V is basically a full discharge on a battery. If you are constantly dipping into the battery reserve (long droning bass notes, a lot of transients, heavy bass guitar, etc...) having more reserve is still not fixing the problem. It is only masking it. It will still kill the alt in the long run and depending on the batteries, they will likely go as well. Regardless of how big the reserve is if you are averaging more out than in, it will eventually run dry. If you are draining one battery, you will drain any number of batteries, it will just take longer. It will also take longer to refill once they are drained. And until they are recharged, they are a larger load on the alt. If he was only momentarily dipping into the reserve of the battery and then only doing so infrequently, another battery might possibly be in order, but infrequent and momentary dips into the reserves don't drain a battery down to edit:There is no way that 2600 watts is coming out of this system with music unless there is some serious clipping involved. [/QUOTE]

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