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doing an install with a friend and we've come to a dead end...
-his alt is upgraded and it runs the car at 14.06 volts most of the time -battery under the hood is a cheaper one, but its only two months old. He cant get a good battery under the hood because of space limitations. -he wants to compete a bit in the summer so he will be adding 2-4 batts in the trunk -im helping him with all the wiring etc but... -do his auxillary batts need to be deep cycles or can they just be any batts? also can they be marine batteries? -he will NOT have an isolator inbetween the batts
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Since you are saying that he doesn't have space, I would go with this battery set up:
A Sp800 under the hood (it will fit) and 2 sp1700's in the back. You might actually get away with only 1 sp1700 in the back.
My amp draws 400 amps basically and I run the sp800 and sp1700 and my headlights do not dim, voltage stays above 13.5, and all is good (I also have the big three and upgraded alt.)
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Hey drosen, this is off topic but I'm curious, what amp do you run? I always laugh when I see your sig, and now I see you say it draws 400amps. I'm just curious, most be one hell of an amp. Thanks.
Oh yeah on topic I agree with what was said above.
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I run a Phoenix Gold MS1000, 2 feet 10 inches of yummy goodness. and at 1500+ x 2 @ 4 ohms RMS, one of the most powerful as well.
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drosen, you read my mind, that is the same amp i run, that damn current draw kicks my ass.
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