Krisztián Arnold Posted June 17, 2019 Report Posted June 17, 2019 Hey Guys! I am in need of some help inconnection with my battery connection. 😁 So at one point it occurred to me, when I played from my batteries only, one is taking more time to recharge than the other. It seemed to me, that the balance between them is equal(I think I was wrong), so I decided to investigate. I know that battery one takes the more "beat" than it should, because it takes 4-6 hours to recharge opposite to battery two which is only taking 1-2 hours, when placed on a charger.I also put on a test tone to see what is up, and started clamping for some amperage measurements. By this I found out battery one is providing 16X MORE amps than battery two. So here is the deal. I do not know what causes this problem, because I have 0 AWG copper wires, and I have 15 inches of wire between batteries counter to 4 feet between the batteries and the amplifier, so I don't think it is the wires. What I could come up with as a solution is to get a dual 1/0 to 1/0 power and ground input for the amplifier for balance purposes. Do you think it will help? Or is it just a waste of money? If you have any solutions/ideas please share it!! Thank you in advance!
slowfkncar Posted June 17, 2019 Report Posted June 17, 2019 Charge them both again and load test them one by one, if both hold the same/similar output then check your crimps & wire.
Krisztián Arnold Posted June 17, 2019 Author Report Posted June 17, 2019 So you think it is the batteries fault, or the connections, and a dual input terminal would not help? I am just curious
slowfkncar Posted June 17, 2019 Report Posted June 17, 2019 1 hour ago, Krisztián Arnold said: So you think it is the batteries fault, or the connections, and a dual input terminal would not help? I am just curious Both a sulphated battery or loose crimp/connection at one of the terminals ect can cause similar symptoms. Without actually seeing your setup, load testing them individually is the easiest & fastest thing I can hint you as this will tell you right away by process of elimination. What amp are you running?
Krisztián Arnold Posted June 17, 2019 Author Report Posted June 17, 2019 Okay, thank you, this makes a ton of sense. I will check up on my connections, maybe crimp my wires again. If this does not work, than I'll go and hunt myself down some loastester, but first I do not want to spend money needlessly. I am currently runing a Hifonics BRX 2016.1D, but honestly I think for this amp 200AH is enough.
BassMunky Posted June 17, 2019 Report Posted June 17, 2019 Could be both Shakin not Stirred....my buildhttp://www.stevemead...ngle-cab-build/412 CVX And put a sealed enclosure in your trunk cut a hole in your deck and call it ported
Krisztián Arnold Posted June 17, 2019 Author Report Posted June 17, 2019 You mean, it could be the connections/crimps and the batteries? OR the connections and the crimps? Which one you referring to?
slowfkncar Posted June 17, 2019 Report Posted June 17, 2019 11 minutes ago, Krisztián Arnold said: Okay, thank you, this makes a ton of sense. I will check up on my connections, maybe crimp my wires again. If this does not work, than I'll go and hunt myself down some loastester, but first I do not want to spend money needlessly. I am currently runing a Hifonics BRX 2016.1D, but honestly I think for this amp 200AH is enough. Since one battery has 17x more discharge current than the other, I was under the impression that you already had a load tester. You could always swap the location of battery one with battery two, in theory if your crimp/wires are crap it will be the other battery that acts up. Fwiw, 9 times out of 10 this is simply a battery going bad, built enough resistance that it no longer has the same discharge output, but ive also seen people try to use a hammer or a shit crimper on 0 gauge, this normally causes problems when trying to pull 150+ amps through a half crimped ring.
Krisztián Arnold Posted June 17, 2019 Author Report Posted June 17, 2019 So first of all, thank you for trying to help me figure this out. I do not have a loadtester, I clamped for amperage, and that gave me this result. I'll try to do the swapping thing, but I have a feeling it is not the batteries going wrong. I made my proper crimps, with a hydraulic crimper, a proper one, with 12 Tons of crimping force. However I ordered some new terminals in the mean time, so I am going redo all of the crimps. Also I wanted to wait until I do all of this connection thing again, because if I am in need of those dual wire input terminals, than the quantity of wire lugs used is different.
BassMunky Posted June 18, 2019 Report Posted June 18, 2019 Try desulphate first. Check crimps. Make sure it pure copper wire. Sand all connections again lugs and on frame Shakin not Stirred....my buildhttp://www.stevemead...ngle-cab-build/412 CVX And put a sealed enclosure in your trunk cut a hole in your deck and call it ported
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