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<blockquote data-quote="audioholic" data-source="post: 5040439" data-attributes="member: 549629">Long as in regular use. Im not gonna guess how long exactly, if that&#039;s what you are asking for. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif But again 80 amps is approx 1200 watts. No battery reserve changes that fact. More battery reserve simply means you have longer before your battery reserve runs dry.Using your example, 500 horses under the hood.... having an 80 amp alt on a high powered daily system is like having 500 hp, but bicycle tires that wont allow you to get the traction you need to use those horses.If all those 7 amps added up to mostly &#039;headroom&#039;... as I said earlier in the thread, headroom is power that is NEVER used. So if the system was set up that way, I find it a bit misleading to then suggest to people how you were banging 7 amplifiers on an 80 amp alternator. I could hook 27 amplifiers to the stock alternator on one of my vehicles and leave the gains all artificially low and never turn the volume up past 1/3.... but then I wouldn&#039;t go to the boards and brag I can run 27,000 watts or 27 amplifiers (or whatever) off my stock charging system.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="audioholic, post: 5040439, member: 549629"] Long as in regular use. Im not gonna guess how long exactly, if that's what you are asking for. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif[/IMG] But again 80 amps is approx 1200 watts. No battery reserve changes that fact. More battery reserve simply means you have longer before your battery reserve runs dry. Using your example, 500 horses under the hood.... having an 80 amp alt on a high powered daily system is like having 500 hp, but bicycle tires that wont allow you to get the traction you need to use those horses. If all those 7 amps added up to mostly 'headroom'... as I said earlier in the thread, headroom is power that is NEVER used. So if the system was set up that way, I find it a bit misleading to then suggest to people how you were banging 7 amplifiers on an 80 amp alternator. I could hook 27 amplifiers to the stock alternator on one of my vehicles and leave the gains all artificially low and never turn the volume up past 1/3.... but then I wouldn't go to the boards and brag I can run 27,000 watts or 27 amplifiers (or whatever) off my stock charging system. [/QUOTE]

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