Anybody add a second battery?

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  1. May 27, 2011 at 12:58 AM #31
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    Isn't the battery mount the same?

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  2. May 27, 2011 at 1:01 AM #32
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    Sure is, didn't look, and haven't had much sleep lately!


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    So what would be the best way for me to set it up? Tie the two together, a red top and a yellow top, or put in a isolator and run most of my added stuff off the yellow top?


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  4. May 27, 2011 at 2:43 AM #34
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    I'd run the factory stuff and efans off the Red Top, and everything else off the Yellow. Make it less likely to leave you stranded.

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  5. May 27, 2011 at 2:54 AM #35
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    But tie the two together right?


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    put in an isolator.
     
  7. May 27, 2011 at 7:35 AM #37
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    That's what I was thinking that way the alt will charge both batteries but all the extras will come off the yellow top.


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    lmao. i was thinkin bout this on the way into work, cuz i want to put a power inverter, full 110, in the back for the kid when we go to chicago and thought, hmmm, keep 1 battery for "as-is" and the secondary for all my add-ons, and tie em together. damn you guys are smart. :jester:
     
  9. May 27, 2011 at 7:58 AM #39
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    Hopefully someone will draw up a diagram and find a " isolator" I have no idea what all I will need other than a yellow top and a battery tray. Lol


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    I got all this work planned out for my truck, I just haven't done it yet.

    I am going to go with a red top and yellow top mounted pretty much the way the expo that will posted is.

    I am going to put an isolator in most likely the one from painless wiring.

    I am also going to replace my ash tray with a switch panel most likely one with 8 switches. Behind that panel will be that fuse box from autozone. So I will have one wire from the yellow top to the new fusebox feeding the switches, then out to the lights that I will be adding on later.
     
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