BigRed Posted May 11, 2011 Report Share Posted May 11, 2011 I have a 2008 Dodge Charger. If you don't already know the battery is located in the trunk. Is is good or bad or neither to ground your amp directly to the battery negative terminal? I don't want anything like no because that increases the chances of the wires touching. If you perform a quality installation and secure the wires properly this is not of concern. I have done a little looking around and haven't found information placing it as a negative thing to do except for one user comment that was talking about a ground loop. Using common sense and logic it seemed that connecting the Amp ground to the negative battery terminal was an acceptable option but as always I worry too much and have to find out the facts ha Let me know what you think. Lets try to get someone with good knowledge on the topic on here too Quote Red Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
memphisBred Posted May 11, 2011 Report Share Posted May 11, 2011 Connecting the amp ground to the battery ground? No there is nothing wrong with that, at all. Some people prefer that, anyways over a body/chassis ground. Quote SMD Super Seller/Buyer Audison----Hertz----Rainbow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team_DC-Derrick Posted May 11, 2011 Report Share Posted May 11, 2011 Just add to the battery ground and you should be fine with doing that Quote The DC Integra 3 18s to 6 15 build log Team_DC-Derrick's Youtube Team DC Audio where theres a will theres a wall....... I just realized Steve has reach Voldemort status, over on JP's site he is the one who will not be named....."We dont speak his name over here, fearing it will destroy us" LOL not even in hush tones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickyFriery97 Posted May 11, 2011 Report Share Posted May 11, 2011 that will be fine i ground my amps to the D3100s in my burb Quote 2014 Chevy Silverado Crewcab 1994 Chevy Full Size blazer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RooTxBeeR Posted May 11, 2011 Report Share Posted May 11, 2011 Ya it's all good, there was a topic of a guy who did a bunch of small things like this and just moving things in his car to see if any yielded higher db's and puting the ground to the way your talking, raised his db's by like .3 Quote On 11/20/2012 at 8:54 PM, AMI CUSTOMS said: Turned mine up today at a light, guy next to me his steering wheel started moving and he looked over at me like I was a magician lol. On 5/9/2012 at 8:45 PM, skittlesRgood said: fuck the plating. look at what the main metal used is. you could buy unicorn blood plated terminals but if its just covering up dog shit, whats the point On 4/10/2013 at 12:26 PM, mrd6 said: I'll admit, half way through sanding that fiberglass in the rain and cold while I was all itchy I was definitely starting to question why i was doing this haha Soon To Be '04 Ford Escape US Alternator 280A Hairpin D4800 Under the Hood (6) XP3000's in Rear 1/0 SHCA & XS Power 4 runs to back TORK2 kit from Tony @ CE Auto Supply Pioneer DEH-80PRS DD AW6.5 (2) per door *Tweeter Unkown* DD SS4a & C3d (2) SCV4000 @ .5Ohm (2) 15" Sundown Zv5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kweezinarts Posted May 11, 2011 Report Share Posted May 11, 2011 Direct + and direct - are the best connections you can get... least resistance... Quote Peep my tunes... '99 Audi A4 Q 1.8t Knu 1/0 Big 3 Kenwood Excelon KDC-X891 HU US Amps Merlin MD2D 2ohm @ 1000w RMS 1x RE SX10D4 in custom ported 1" MDF box 1.25cf @ 34hz 4x Audiobahn 90w RMS 4" 2-ways 2x Kenwood Excelon 110w RMS 6x9 3-ways 2x Stock Bose high door tweets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRed Posted May 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 Just add to the battery ground and you should be fine with doing that Ya now that you say it thats a good point. The battery grounds and even if someone had 0 guage Amp-Battery it wouldn't matter if you had 8guage Battery-body. Quote Red Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team_DC-Derrick Posted May 12, 2011 Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 well adding to the battery ground is part of the big 3... the big 3 does help the flow, lol thats why i said it Quote The DC Integra 3 18s to 6 15 build log Team_DC-Derrick's Youtube Team DC Audio where theres a will theres a wall....... I just realized Steve has reach Voldemort status, over on JP's site he is the one who will not be named....."We dont speak his name over here, fearing it will destroy us" LOL not even in hush tones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRed Posted May 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 I wanna see if anyone has reasons as to why not to do that. If you do or even just a thought to why not post away. Always good bein the devils advocate ha Quote Red Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo_frog Posted May 12, 2011 Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 I wanna see if anyone has reasons as to why not to do that. If you do or even just a thought to why not post away. Always good bein the devils advocate ha I'm curious to see this too. Quote Need an install? Hit me up.[email protected]Got car audio questions? Check here first!Everything you need to know. =]http://www.stevemeadedesigns.com/board/topic/83029-everything-you-need-to-know/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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