Hamster is powering my 6kwatt system
Hamster is powering my 6kwatt system
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Two equal 12v batterys front and bed of truck (slightly different age of year ish) powered by a 180amp alternator. With 550amp relay switch. How long will this take to fully charge both under normal (ish) driving conditions. I'll add the 2nd "bed" batt Is directly powering a 6kwatt (max) set of subs. Yes yes I know I need to add more amp at the alternator side and I promise I will..... before I add the other 3k watts... promise. Haha.
RE: Hamster is powering my 6kwatt system
On the alternator side, 180 amps at nominal 12 volts is about 2.2 kW, so your load may be capable of running the batteries down even with the charging system operating.
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RE: Hamster is powering my 6kwatt system
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Which one? https://www.optimabatteries.com/en-us/redtop-start...
It's either 44 A.h or 50 A.h ...
If you are using two of them and it's the bigger one, that's 100 A.h of capacity, and nominally the time to recharge with a 180 amp supply (and zero load!) is (100 / 180) = 0.55... of an hour ... That's plausible.
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I have always been told that in car audio batterys Vs capacitors you should always do batterys... capacitors are fine for lower watt systems but once you get over a certain RMS multiple batterys and larger alternator(s) are the best..
RE: Hamster is powering my 6kwatt system
TTFN (ta ta for now)
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RE: Hamster is powering my 6kwatt system