Please help with voltage loss

ax600
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Hello all,

So last night I was driving home from my shop booming some old school Bass 305 , when my mids and tweeters all of the sudden made hideous noises and sent two of my PPI amps into protect mode.

I pulled over and opened the hatch of my Explorer only to notice that the voltage on my seccond battary was all the way down to eight volts:crap: .

With the engine running and a HO alt the battary will not charge any more than eight volts. I went home and started testing everything with a VOM , and found that at the alt I have 17.5 volts. At the isolater I have 16.8 volts. But at the terminal on the isolater for the seccond battary I only have 9volts unless I disconnect the cable for the seccond battary then I have 16 volts:crap: . WTF Is going on I have checked all of my power and groung connections and they are all secure.

I am planning to run a sepirate 1/0 from the front batt to the rear batt for the ground to see if that helps tonight. I have allready done the big three and I have been using this system for two weeks with no problems. Has anyone had this problem? Please help Thank you in advance.

 
Have the battery tested?
You know I was thinking of that, but then I thought that It could not be because it is a brand new 1125 Optima yellow top. I suppese thoes go to hell just like everything ellse. Thanks for the reply;) .
 
Tonight I ran a 1\0 cable from the ground on the front battary to the negative post on my yellow top in the back of my explorer. Still having the voltage problem:( . The Optima must be shot. I will have it load tested tomorrow.

 
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