Should I Get A Battery Isolator

[LiL PiNoY]

I have

Amps:

2 Alpine pdx 1.1000

1 Alpine pdx 4.100

Subs:

2 Alpine type x's

2 pairs of Alpine type r components

head unit Alpine 9884

225 amp alternator made by Stinger

1 Kinetik Hc 2000 up front

1 Kinetik Hc 2400 in trunk

1/0 guage everywhere except from the amps to the distro. block is 4 guage

what benefits do i get and will it hurt anything?

[keitare]

I have

Amps:

2 Alpine pdx 1.1000

1 Alpine pdx 4.100

Subs:

2 Alpine type x's

2 pairs of Alpine type r components

head unit Alpine 9884

225 amp alternator made by Stinger

1 Kinetik Hc 2000 up front

1 Kinetik Hc 2400 in trunk

1/0 guage everywhere except from the amps to the distro. block is 4 guage

what benefits do i get and will it hurt anything?

if you want to isolate your front battery just take a run of 1/0 from the alt to the rear battery instead of from the front battery to the rear battery

[Guest KyleCannon]

I don't recommend isolating your battery unless you plan on beating your system for a long time with your car off.

[MECHMAN]

I don't recommend isolating your battery unless you plan on beating your system for a long time with your car off.

Battery Isolators are a bad idea. You should never run your rear battery all the way dead anyway. It's hard on batteries, and hard on alternators.

[Guest KyleCannon]

Indeed it is

[Rigo]

I wanted to ask this to. So its a bad idea? should i just run the wire from the alt to the back batt?

[Guest KyleCannon]

Yeah, just don't run an isolater... it puts a crap load of stress on the alt and battery.

[Rigo]

Ok. Thnx!

[thehoe92]

tonight has proved to me that isolators are crap.

I use one because I have a stock battery and a kinetik in the back.

I was fixing a connection issue with my speaker on the drivers side so for music to play I had to have the key all the way turned so the headlights were on (turned them off) and air was blowing for there not to be an annoying beep. took me about 5 minutes and I go to pull it out of the driveway and it won't start. turns out the isolator didn't isolate my rear battery and drained my starter battery a night before the comp.

you are running both kinetik in the front and back.

the size is a little off but it won't put nearly as much strain on it as an isolator would.

just don't play your music without the engine on which should rarely happen since you would want to show those alpines off

nice choice in head unit and sorry for jacking your thread with my sob story tonight.

[8Deuce]

All the reasons above are good. I've also seen them give up to a .6v drop...