What modifications would I need to make to operate this with a small car...Larger capacity alternator, and batt.?
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None. Just connect it to your battery terminals and turn it on. The electrical system in your small car will handle the 2000 watt load.
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I wanted to do the same thing, but I was told by mechanics the wires to the light hornest were to small and could burn under a heavy load. So I wired to the battery. Got the 50 amp fuse from a audio store.
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I assume you plan to use your car battery with 120v converter or an XPower 300 watt convert. They will give you over 3 hours. Good luck. Reg
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1,the closer the inverter is to the battery, the better it performs. 2, contact Tripp Lite tech support for the correct answer. 3, If you want to do it right, have your cables made by a shop that does it professionally, usually a qualified starter/alternator rebuilder or battery distributor can help you with that. 4, make sure that you use ring terminals/battery cable lugs that fir the studs on the inverter. I assume you are getting an inverter that is powerful enough to do your job. Mike
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The car has 2 battery compartments. You need an adaptor to connect both at the same time.
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Absolutely, I would just do the "Big three" alternator positive to battery positive, battery negative to chassis, engine to chassis. This will help your charging system out.
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For yur own protection you should get this information direct from Bussman. Advance Auto advertises the unit can handle up to 6 30 amp circuits for a total of 180 amps. I don't think there is are many cars that would require that sort of power. This is not important to me because the alternator on my car is 65 amp.
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That should work I have a smaller battery for a trolling motor that worked well for me.
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use car battery. When you start your car. The alternator will recharge the battery
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u can put pretty much any 12 volt battery in this car look it up on youtube. You can pop the top off and connect it to another battery easily in miniutes
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I asked my son, who's actually the person we bought the car for. He knows much more about this than I do. He says: "sure you can use the hexfly 2s 5000 Mah 7.4 V battery but I would not suggest a 3 cell! You could damage your esc or your motor with a large battery."OK?
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Remove the rubber orange cover. Access is underneath. Here you can change the battery and the fuse. Always use a fuse of the proper size and value; 250mA/250V fast blow
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Hi, I might be able to help. "B1" & "B2" go to the individuals batteries of course. "A" is the charging wire from your alternator and DE is the exciter wire that turns on your unit. Use a 16 or 14 ga wire (and connectors) to your fuse box and find a circuit that come "on" or is hot when your ignition is on. Piggy-back on to this circuit. You can also get a special piggy-back adaptor from your local auto parts store. This will turn on your isolator when (and only when) the key circuit is on or the vehicle is running and off when your ignition is off. Great unit and has worked well for me for almost 2 years. Let me know if I can help any further. Chris
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I truly don't know the answer, but you could make a nut and bolt connection on both ends from the battery cables. Then it would work normally by just unscrewing the middle plastic knob. Only drawback might be that it wiggles.
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Try measuring the old battery and then find the demensions that fit. But putting this as your main battery will still put a lot of stress on the alternator and electrical system. So best case would be to use this as an extra battery and keep a starting battery for your main battery
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You could make it work, but it will be more trouble than its worth in my opinion...this runs on a 12 volt electrical system (Like most cars), not household 110 V....so you will need an inverter to power it.
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You could run it like "Gravy" suggests: car battery >> cigarette lighter >> power inverter (ie AC out) >> adapter that comes with LP-2020A+ >> LP-2020A+ power input.An easier way might be: car battery >> (some sort of capacitor / circuit protection) >> LP-2020A+ power input. You'd probably need to know more about car electronics to go with the latter, though.