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It's because you have a battery current sensor. As long as your big 3 ground is ran through the sensor, you're fine. If you add any other grounds (on the stock charging system) and they are not ran through the sensor, you will eventually get a high charge

This is why I'm doing a separate charging system on my 07 silverado classic

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OP, from my understanding, there is a current sensor on the factory ground wire for your battery, and any additional grounds to the battery must be run through that. The problem with that is, that sensor is too small to add any wire that would be suitable for the big three. So the only option is to either not do the big three, or to run a dual alt setup, with your high output as a charging system ONLY for a rear battery bank/amplifiers, completely separate from the main charging/starting system, otherwise your new alt will charge higher than it should be. As for grounding your amps and rear batteries to the frame, that should be fine, just not to the front battery.

If my information is off, I'm sure ToNasty will be here soon to correct it as all of his posts about the current sensors are what I'm trying to remember without searching the forum for it.

Edit: here you go OP. Maybe this will help. ToNasty explains it easier than I do. Since I don't have it. http://www.stevemeadedesigns.com/board/topic/198746-tahoe-battery-current-sensor/

It's because you have a battery current sensor. As long as your big 3 ground is ran through the sensor, you're fine. If you add any other grounds (on the stock charging system) and they are not ran through the sensor, you will eventually get a high charge

This is why I'm doing a separate charging system on my 07 silverado classic

Does this only affect 05 and up? I don't have that type of problem in my 04 at all.

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I know in the 08 Trailblazer I had, if you did a ground from the battery to the alternator it would act crazy.

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The ALT is already grounded on the engine and the engine is either grounded to the frame or has a ground wire going to the battery so that being said when u grounded the alt to the battery i ASSUMED YOU ADDED an extra ground wire

For some reason the Trailblazer charged at 13.8 but the tahoe is at 14.4

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I never said 13.8 was bad i was just saying that 13.8-14.4 was acceptable as a charging voltage nothing else

i didnt mean to get anyone upset, hope you get ur alt and big three wired up

It's shit like this why I like dealing with people with real world experience. No you, didn't upset me and you still obviously haven't read my post. My big 3 is wired up on the current.......... Nevermind.

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I was going to jump in and help but it looks like the answer has already been give . The current sensor is the limiter here in the 05 and up pcm gm Systems

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