which amp to get for most spl?
I had always thought that using a second battery is just for more playing time when the car is off. When the car is on I agree with you it doesn't matter, cause all the juice is coming from the alternator and not the batterys. I do believe though that having the batery closer to the amp is better as you will get less voltage drop.
that is my point exactly. I don't know what size of power wire you have and/or how many runs by if you're using 4gauge, you should run either more runs of it or even go bigger in terms of the size of the power wire you have. that way when the car is running you'll have more voltage going to the amps. More wire = more voltage = less voltage drop = less strobe lights.
i was looking to get a Kinetik HC800 and put it in the trunk and hope that that solved my dimming issues.
but i basically have no money anymore with insurance so things work fine at the moment, i will see about getting the wiring and see how that does.
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Get rid of your cap asap. They add more strain on your charging system in fact. They are glorified volt meters. I had light dimming issues and put a 3 farad cap on and it made it even worse. I did some research into them and found out that they only help to stablize voltage when you actually have more amps from your charging system then what is being drawn from your amp. Think about it. Your cap needs to charge up and then discharge repeatidly. Your cap shoots out its wad in 1/2 a second and then has to suck more juice to fill up again. What a bunch of garbage caps are.
Get rid of your cap asap. They add more strain on your charging system in fact. They are glorified volt meters. I had light dimming issues and put a 3 farad cap on and it made it even worse. I did some research into them and found out that they only help to stablize voltage when you actually have more amps from your charging system then what is being drawn from your amp. Think about it. Your cap needs to charge up and then discharge repeatidly. Your cap shoots out its wad in 1/2 a second and then has to suck more juice to fill up again. What a bunch of garbage caps are.
80 amp in line and 90 amp built into the amp.
my alternator *may* not be putting out the rated amps as it's going on it's way out.
during a heavy bass song (ludacris - blueberry yum yum) it will drop to 13 volts at idle.
i need to hook up a DMM to the amp directly to see what it's getting though.
my alternator *may* not be putting out the rated amps as it's going on it's way out.
during a heavy bass song (ludacris - blueberry yum yum) it will drop to 13 volts at idle.
i need to hook up a DMM to the amp directly to see what it's getting though.
