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is having your amps "grounded" to the negative of the battery better than the frame of the car? what do the pros do?

Buss bar neg if it is practical, but if not frame is fine as long as you have frame ground to support that to the neg of the bank.

what if there a battery grounded in the trunk.... if wanting to ground amps to the frame should u use the same ground location as the battery?

So if you added a battery in the truck, ground to the battery neg if practical if it isn't then frame point should be common to avoid ground loop.

which in your opinion is better for the amp?

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Battery neg is ALWAYS the best spot, given that your two options are equal. Meaning if I have my amp placed close to the battery bank, and my amp ground is gonna be 10 inches to battery neg or 10 inches to frame/chassis. I am going to the battery neg everytime. The shorter the path for return to the battery the better.

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Alternator casing is the absolute ground when vehicle is running.

What if you pull 200 amps and your alt only does 150, where is ground alt case or battery neg? LOL

Ok

In that case.. the battery once again becomes the power source... because of it's buffering capabilities, I believe.

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Ground is whatever path leads to the battery negative or alternator casing(assuming a typical negative ground system). It is the side of the circuit that has has the abundance of electrons.

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There is a basic DC circuit only different between that and a vehicle is we dont have have large resistance values like that lol.

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2014 MWSPL 2nd place Xtreme 4 - 144.9 db
2013 USACI 1st place Streetbeat 4 - 161.9 db
2013 USACI 1st place Street Q+ - 162.8 db
2013 MWSPL 3rd Kaos2 & 4th Xtreme 4
2011 USACI 2nd place MOD 1001-2k - 160.0 db
2011 MWSPL 4th place: Adv3 - 157.8 db, Kaos2 - 150s db, Xtreme4 - 140s db
2010 ARSPL 1st place 501-750 - 160.3 db Arkansas loudest

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i screwed yo momma to the ground in my truck

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