mrchaos

I plan on relocating my battery to the trunk area to get some weight off the front and make some room up there for my upcoming upgrades.

I have a few question regarding the wiring of this...

I want to have a distro block under the hood to supply power to a few things like my HID system.

I was planning on using a Stinger SXFD04 fused distro block which has 2 1/0ga inputs and 3 4ga outputs and it will be wired as such:

Battery in trunk, each post with terminals that have 2 1/0ga outputs. One negative lead will be grounded to the chassis the other will go my PG Powercore. The real concern I have is with the positive lead wiring. One of the positive leads will feed fused power to the Powercore and the other will be fused then make its way under the hood.

Once under the hood it will be feed into one of the inputs on the distro block, I'm good so far except now my battery is not being charged.

Would it be wrong/incorrect/not reccommended to use the other "input" on the distro block to get power from the alternator leaving me three fused outputs to use as I feel?



Thanks,
Steve

[ May 27, 2004, 03:24 PM: Message edited by: mrchaos ]

Drysuit John

My $.02. [img]smile.gif[/img] Fuze both ends of long run. Some sugest that the ground be fuzed also. Not exatly sure why but I have been told that. [img]graemlins/dunno.gif[/img]

[ May 27, 2004, 02:11 PM: Message edited by: Drysuit John ]

mrchaos

what about a fuse between alt and distro? i have been reading a few things and it might be an idea too.

steve

[ May 27, 2004, 03:03 PM: Message edited by: mrchaos ]

mrchaos

sweet thanks.....now its time to buy....

this wont be a cheap trip :S

steve

Tim Baillie.

In my Toyota the batteries were in the bed of the truck, I had a distribution block under the hood for all the stock wiring then I had 1/0 that went into a circuit breaker beside the dist block, then it ran all the way to the back of the bed and then was fused on the battery, then the output to the stereo was fused. Anything more then that would be overkill

JohnVroom

I agree the battery should be fused (no more than 18 inches from the battery like the sanctioning bodies like) and under the hood as Tim described. As far as overkill, car audio is all about overkill but just fuse the positive side OK

Tim Baillie.

All you really need is fusing on the battery, on the input and the output...................if there is a short anywhere that fuse at the battery will blow first...............no matter what............