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chumbly_warner
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31st Mar 05 at 10:39   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
When i go to shows i want to be able to plug my car in to either the mains or in to a genarator so i can have the ice on all day and not flat my battery. Can some1 tell me what i need to buy.
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Richie
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31st Mar 05 at 10:48   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
ive got a powerpack here, cost me £80, gives 180amps


At major shows like max ect, if u get there early u can borrow one off the major companies
chumbly_warner
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31st Mar 05 at 10:52   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
So i just plug that in to a plug socket and then attach it to my battery and i will be able to have everything on in my car. Will it beable to take it if i turn it up loud?
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yup then when you turn it back down it will continue to charge your batteries
chumbly_warner
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Cool, ive just looked on google for 1. I thought there might be 1 that could actually be fixed into my car and that would power the whole of the ice, without going through my battery.
Also what battery would u recomend for my ice? I havent got an uprated 1 yet, i do have a new alternator though, but not put it on, its a 70amp 1.
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just get a corsa turbo diesel battery, how much power u got going?
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31st Mar 05 at 11:11   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I need 2 run, 6 Tvs, in car PC, JL 500\1, JL 300\2 and the kenwood headunit.
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tv's draw jack shit power

in car PC, not that much

500\1, about 60 - 80 amps

300/2, 40-70

headunit 10
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a turbo diesel battery would do fine i reckon, but dont forget you wont get the full power of your system out without 14.4v and the current behind it
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I ahve been given a good price on a Excide battery from the ICE dealer, i just didnt know if i needed it, but my standard battery is not holding up to well at the moment.

Would you have a different earth point, for amps, incar pc, headunit and tvs?
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er, yeah, cant get em all to one earth location


They all go to the same place anyway which should be the chassis.
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I have all of my things running 2 1 earch point on the car, but i dont think it is very good, it is fixed behind the rear quater panel. Going 2 put them all 2 different points.
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dissy block for earthing??
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yeah i use a dizzy for earthing aswell, all amps, hu etc.. run off it, its fine.
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adi i am goin to leave all that to u as i am confuzzled
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Where is the dizzy block? Thanks
Richie
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A dizzy block for earths is a very bad idea? Every earth you have should be as short as possible. The chassis is like a huge distribution block.
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I got 2 main earthing points,

1 for the 2 amps in the boot = seatbelt bolt

1 for the screen & invertor = factory ground point in pass footwell.

Headunit via ISO connector and it all works fine
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So rear seat belt bolt fot the amps, screens a grounding point in the front, pc to another grounding point in the front and the headunit to the iso plug. There is so many wires in my car at the mo.
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Here is where all my things are earthed to at the mo:



Here is all the wires in the car:
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Ive got mine earthed to the factory earthing point behind the plastic access cover where you get to your rear lights. Your install is sweet as
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Nice wiring there mate
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Ill get it all sorted soon, i just want to sort of the earthing points, then get the new alternator fitted and upgrade the Big3, then tidy all the cables up and make a junction box where all the tvs can connect to. When i had all of the things in the car working it looked good, then a melted the live cable as i think thre was a bad earth, thats y i need to sort it.

I have also got 2 finish the new door cards and the custom dash and then get it all trimmed all by Max Live
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I think you can buy junction boxes, seen them for scart, not sure about phono connections but im sure they are around, if not jus make sure you do nice clean connections, i had sum interfearance on a screen because the RCA was crap.

As for overheating wires, sounds like they aint big enough and your tryna push too much thru em.
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I have a 7 way amplifier for the tv signal, i mean for the power for all the tvs. I burnt out the cable as i was tring 2 run everything off the headunit power cable

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