hooking up an extra battery

I am thinkin of ditchin the distro though and just using the battery would that work to?

heres a new digram

Sure, that certainly a better option than your first diagram. Also, I still stress the importance of using identical batteries!It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."

Is it possible to use a cap as a distribution block? I have power wire running from front battery to back battery, from back battery to cap, then from cap 3 wires going to 3 amps.

what size fuse should i use for the end of the 1/0 gauge and what size for the 4 gauge?

audioman2007 wrote: Is it possible to use a cap as a distribution block? I have power wire running from front battery to back battery, from back battery to cap, then from cap 3 wires going to 3 amps.

Sure, perfectly acceptable to that...

mazzasec wrote: what size fuse should i use for the end of the 1/0 gauge and what size for the 4 gauge?

1/0 fuse for NO GREATER THAN 350A #4 fuse for NO GREATER THAN 150AIt all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."

ok this is what i got to go along with my diagram. So i need to fuse the 1/0 gauge right before the second batt with a 300 a fuse. Then i need to fuse the 4 gauge going to the soundstream amp(2000 watts at 1ohm) a 150a fuse and then fuse the 4 gauge going to the JL amp (75 x4 at 4ohms) with like a 100a fuse? Also wont i need a bigger fuse for the soundstream amp? I know i should be running 1/0 gauge to the 2000 watt amp but the inputs dont go well with 1/0 gauge so i just used 4

Ok now I got this. I got one question about it though. Does the short run of 1/0 gauge coming off the battery into the distro need to be fused? Other then that how would this work shown in the diagram.

Anything longer than about 12 to 18 inches should have SOME type of overcurrent protection included. and waht you are showing there... that'll work just fine! :) Again, ar you going to replace both batteries with identical batteries at the same time? You keep showing different batteries in your diagrams...It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."

haemphyst wrote: Anything longer than about 12 to 18 inches should have SOME type of overcurrent protection included. and waht you are showing there... that'll work just fine! :) Again, ar you going to replace both batteries with identical batteries at the same time? You keep showing different batteries in your diagrams...

So it will work fine. the 1/0 gauge coming off the 2nd battery will probably be less then 2 feet anyways.So I DONT need to fuse the 1/0 gauge coming off?