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  1. Lithium Weirdness

    in XS Power Batteries / Chargers! (and other stuff too)

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    16 hours ago, hdorre said:

    hunter had a similar result when he added his winston. his front batt was outputting 80a while his winston was outputting ~800a. due to the agm's lower resting voltage, it would drain the lith when the car was off, so there was no reason to keep the batt up front. he wound up bypassing it. its been like 3 months, no issues. 

    as far as the alt not outputting full power under load, i cant help ya. as much as scottie hates his guts, this may be a question for someone like Travis Young of JY.

    We isolated batteries so that his lithium would only be connected to battery system when car was turned on. This is done to help the battery resting voltage. Didn't wanna drain the lithium down to 12.8 when its happiest at 13.4

  4. Lithium Weirdness

    in XS Power Batteries / Chargers! (and other stuff too)

    Posted

    So a buddy of mine was tired of having a heavy bank of batts in his VW so he decided to go with an xs 36k spl this year.

    We hooked up the lithium in the back and also left his d3400 upfront. Went out and tested hoping for some better voltage also.... well it was worse....

    We started with clamping the alternator (6 years old and may have needed a refresh) and it was clamping 85 amps with the amp pulling a load.

    Messaged Mr. Singer and a few others and he said to go get a load tester and try the test again. 

    In the testing we found that the alt was making 85 amps at idle when it was claimed to make 200. Also then we put a load on it and it put out 95 even under a load of 300 amps.

    We were ready to pull out the alternator and then someone suggested to disconnect the lithium and try it. We did that and alt was able to put out 175 at idle....

    Messaged scotty to see what he thought and he told us to do the same and disconnect the d3400 and see what the alt clamped. Did that and it clamped 175 amps.

    So we decided to ditch the d3400 this year but before we pulled it we decided to clamp the run that went from the lithium to the d3400 and we found that under a load the lithium was actually feeding the 3400 before the alternator was. We found the alt was still putting out the 85 amps but the lithium was pushing amperage to the d3400 (120 amps of current) 

    Anyone have a good explanation for this? Just trying to gain some knowlede. We plan on pulling d3400 and putting it in my truck and put a bank or 2 of caps in a d3400 case up front in the engine bay in his car 

  11. The SMD HLC-2 Line Output Converter (proto pics inside)

    in D'Amore Engineering - High Quality Car Audio Installation Tools & Accessories

    Posted

    sorry, no new news. This would be hands down the best HLC on the market......but the cost to make one of these is so high, they might be hard to sell. The problem with being a small company is, we only make these products 100, sometimes 200 at a time. That doesn't make for a cheap product. If i had the money to order 100,000 of them, i could keep the price reasonable.

    All these new products we are coming out with are cool but everything costs so much money to produce, it is depressing. Then if it finally does get released, people complain about the prices while CERTAINLY none of us are getting rich here. Just barely keeping it afloat. The products don't just fall out of the sky. We have to basically break ourselves every time we make something. Perfect example. The VU-Din. Those things are an arm and a leg to produce which means the price i have to sell them for is not exactly cheap. Then it takes a year to sell 100 of them. They have been sold out for a while and i want to bring them back but i can't afford to drop almost 10 grand and wait a year to make it back. A lot of people in this thread SAY they want the product but i can almost bet the house that if it came out right now, i would sell just a few and then one or two every few weeks. When you got thousands invested, that doesn't cut it.

    I guess i could apply for a loan and get some of this stuff produced but then i get to OWE the bank $20-30,000...and then wait who knows how long to get it back. Right now, we (SMD and D'Amore) have done this with no loans, no help from anyone. It is hard. Remember guys, the cost of these products are not just the sum of the materials and parts they are made of. I can name at least 10 things that cost money to do this that ISN'T circuit boards, resistors a plastic case and some wire. Its MUCH MUCH more then that.

    that being said, eventually, i would like to release this product. It is awesome.

    Just wondering what is the expensive part of this? Cutting the custom PCB?

  13. XS Power lost a customer today...

    in XS Power Batteries / Chargers! (and other stuff too)

    Posted

    I threw it on the psc60 but since the voltage is so low it reads "standby" they told me I can trick the charger by charging the s3400 with another battery (daisy chain), they said it would take about 3 weeks to recondition it, but more than likely that batt is as good as dead.

    What I did to mine was to take a 12v starting charger and fed my 16v batts a 60 amp charge for a little bit and hooked up my intelli charger at the same time. When the voltage at the batts got up to a place my intelli charger turned on i unplugged the starter charger.

    Like I said it worked for me so I don't see why it wouldn't work for you...

    so when this happened to me I was talking to a friend and he was able to tell me it was a 30 amp draw by some math. (i may be wrong on this but it worked in my case to the T)

    If you assume the 65 ah rating on the batter (for the case of the 3400 a 3.25 amp load over 20 hours) to bring the resting voltage to 0

    so over 21 days at 24 hours you have 504 hours

    assuming the batt was basically at 0 you divide the ah rating by the number of hours there was a draw on it

    65/504 or about a .125 amp draw on the batt

    someone correct me if i'm wrong. Like I said it worked for me right to the thenths spot as to what I found my batts at

  14. XS Power lost a customer today...

    in XS Power Batteries / Chargers! (and other stuff too)

    Posted

    That's bullshit.

    If your truck was the cause it is likely you can recondition the battery and bring it back to life.

    I really hope an XS rep chimes in here.

    I left something plugged in on my bank and it drew 30 amps for 168 hours total and my batts were down to .6 volts for the whole bank.

    Threw it all 12 batts on a 25 amp charger for a day and a half and actually they sit better now than they did before.

    If I were the OP I would throw it on the PSC 60 and watch it come back.

    If not I'll be happy to purchase your "dead' batt

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  17. Project Anti-Gap 2 - Lowering a 2002 GMC Yukon 4wd 3/5

    in Suspension and Brakes (4x4, street drops) - Lift it, Drop it..STOP it!

    Posted

    Had a little chat with Antheny via email a few months ago. Awesome to see that he is interested in the same things as his father. I bet that makes the relationship between you and him closer. All I can get my old man to do is yell at me and tell me I'm wasting my money and I should be saving everything I have so its nice to have see a father and son actually enjoy doing the same things.

  21. Info on 6.4

    in Incriminator Audio

    Posted

    So with me running a 16v system this year I was wondering if you have anyone with any problems running these at 18v (when charging).

    I plan on running 2 of these if I can so any input would be greatly appreciated.

    If you won't mind giving me a rundown of the 6.4 that would be awesome

  25. new SMD Heavy Duty Speaker Box Terminals! 3/4" PVC NO Breaks, NO LEAKS! Stainless or Grade 8 PICS New SINGLE Cups (video page 5)

    in Just Meade....my projects - Tons of SMD Builds here!

    Posted

    Steve just looking at these and wondering if there is anyway you could possibly make it an option or possibly just make a template that could be stuck onto box to router out for that perfect fit?

    Love how these turned out and in the near future will be ordering the speaker terminals and fuse blocks from you!

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