Power Issues

[RumbleNTheTrunk 10+ year member]

I got a Ford F-150 reg. cab pickup, and Im running a Alpine 9830, and im aslo going to be putting in some Diamond Audio Hex s600s 6.5"s & Diamond Audio D6 D6300.4 300w amp...And im already having a bit of power issues lol, today my A/c was acting up a bit, and my head unit was coming on, I had to restart my truck and my head unit came on thank god...I was was wondering what I could do to help this, because im afraid with the speakers and amps that my power issues will get worse...maybe a capacitor...or would it be possible to have two batteries? I personally believe it could be alternator trouble.

Click to read more...

 

[jacko 10+ year member]

a second battery/cap will only place more strain on your alt because it will have to supply energy to yet another thing on top of the regular batt/operating needs. I'd suspect alternator trouble expesscially since an alt in a truck that size should be able to keep up with such simple demands.

 

[TrlcKed_OuT 10+ year member]

what year i got a 2001 f150 and i have setup in sig and i barly even geta volt drop...goes from like 14.2 to 13.8

 

[kuijo 10+ year member]

Ya, i've got 2 amps, and have no problems in my f150.