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Last week my son bought himself an older, yet very clean Lexus IS-350. He did exactly what a lot of us do, he started working on his Yukon and now he can't take it anywhere because it is a target for thieves. Hard to take it to the movies with all that gear sitting in the parking lot. So he wanted to get a car he could drive and not worry too much about. So he chose the 350...Anyway, he got it with no help from me, although i was there for support and i WOULD have co-signed if need be. I didn't have to. They approved him on the spot. He put down a nice chunk of cash and they gave him a good deal and percentage rate for a first time buyer. He has done a few things to it but one thing he eyeballed right away was my stock ISF wheels up in the attic. I actually suggested it if he wanted to. He isn't known to say no to my hammy-downs They are still actually MINE but he can roll on them until he gets something he really wants. They look a lot better though! Can't complain about the mostly new Pilot-sport tires either

Today i got one more piece to my puzzle...just missing a few items before i can think about my next move. I will show this new processor off and update this post soon! I just got it, no time to play with it just yet

Those rims make that car look so much better.

The super duty is getting a system isn't it? Lol

Yeah there is a lot of hearsay and misinformation in the lithium and battery game in general, hell just car audio as a whole. Lol. If it means anything to you, the alternator setup in my video is a Singer 300 and a stock Alt. So about 390A of revved output on tap. And about 260A of idle output on tap. And you see how little it was actually drawing. Alternators weren't being killed. That is after 2:00 of a sustained bassline dropping the battery into the low-mid 12's. The people I have seen say lithium killed their alts are the people who have ran XS Power... And coincidentally I have seen lots of cases of XS Power lithium batteries miserably failing to perform and dropping voltage bad. Which of course would cause the alternators to work harder. Food for thought.

1. Depends on alternators, amplifiers and ohm load the amplifiers will be wired to. 2. Yes just like AGM they will increase in amperage output as voltage drops. But they start discharging from the ~14v range versus the mid 12 range like AGM, so they have the potential to hold high 12's/low 13's for a lot of people. 3. They will be fine to mix. The AGM's resting at a lower voltage will draw from the lithium, which is OK. Lithium prefers to be stored at lower SOC, contrary to AGM which basically higher = better. Any charger will suffice really. 4. Lithium is extremely worth it, and is actually the cheapest option (by a good margin) if you can afford the higher up-front cost. But with JY releasing their 8.55AH single module 12v cells in a few months at roughly $240 shipped each it will make it easier for people to break into the lithium market. People seem to be happy with JY and Limitless. Limitless does have some con's though. The non-modular design makes it impossible to switch to/from 12/16v without replacing the entire battery. The JY's you will only need to add/take away one cell. Limitless doesn't have passive cell balancing either. There is a .5A draw in each JY module that will bleed current until a certain voltage set-point. This indirectly balances all cells with each other without manually balancing them or using a BMS. Also a sidenote, not a single cell has failed since JY's inception. Have heard of numerous cases with people having issues with their XS batteries or being very let down by the performance. Scottie seemed super interested in sending me a lithium to include in my testing until I posted the Winston Vs JY video.... Odd.

Thats some pretty quick shipping. Ordered wednesday night, got it today saturday morning. All the way in the 808 ?

Did anyone save the pic/diagram from the first page?

ill help yo uout real quick d3100 can be used as starting and will give you more instant power xp3000 cannot be used as starting batt and will have more reserve so... in my appilcation i had 2 xp3000s.. what happend was that i was able to go from 13.2v down to 11.2v and hold that voltage ( demo) for about 30 minutes swapped to d3100s voltage went from 13.2v down to 11.8 but i was only able to demo for say 10 minutes i have more instant power but couldnt hold that power longer with the d3100 the xp3000 my voltage was lower but i was able to sutain that power for longer / end story