Not enough battery power?

[Spades]

you can build your own grounding kit for free half the time, if you make friends with the people at local stereo shops, they will let you hunt through their cable scraps, and you can get assorted lenths of high quality grounding cable. i personally ran a couple extra chassis grounds, and ground by the ECU, a ground by the engine, starter, and alternator.

i also ran a ground wire from the negative terminal on the battery all the way to the trunk where my amps are located.

and seriously, dont get a yellow top. its a deep cycle battery. its what i have been saying all along. get a red top if you are going optima. you will just fry that yellow top in a daily driver car with a sound system.

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Mine cost me, even with the nice compression fittings, right around $13.

Spades, talk to us about the long ground going back to the amps.

[Spades]

i got tired of dealing with chassis grounds eventually working loose or getting corroded when the grease wore off in the past, so i decided to run a full cable to the back.

for only 1600watts or so of audio gear, a dedicated ground wire isnt really needed, a chassis ground would normally work...but I like overkill.

p.s. grounds to the alternator and starter help them last longer, where I work the most common failure on them happens when they start to get a bad ground...running your grounding kit to them can help them last longer :)

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I put up a new topic about electrical system upgrades. It should really answer any questions we may have once and for all.

[FEINT]

Originally Posted by camelll

I have had a yellow top for a few years now and I live in the mid west and we see below zero temps with and without the windchill but generally we see single digits without the windchill constantly throughout the winter and I have never had a problem with my car starting up. I don't constantly beat my system, when I do it is usually only while driving on the interstate or on highways and rarely while in town driving.

I am running 1 jl audio 500/1 v2 and 1 jl audio 300/4 v2 and a pioneer avic d3 and a 15 stinger farad cap. I had dimming issues before I installed the cap but not after. Then a few months later I bought a yellow top and don't have any problems with the electrical. I also have a ebay grounding kit.

HOLY **** is that a BLitz Super charger? Very nice by the way.

I will be running a mono-block at 1ohm 1500w RMS + 4 channel amp bridged at 2 x 240w RMS. So that is a good 2000wRMS there. I am just worried that it exceeds the cars standard electrical capacity and further upgrades are required. however, if the amps only draw what they need then I could be ok as might only require half of what is on tap.

I guess I will also need a cap and eventually a yellow top. I will be getting one of those ebay grounding kits.