Battery relocation Details
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From: my engine bay
Save yourself the headache and spend $100 on a relocation kit from summit racing. I got mine from there and stuck an optima red top in the truck with the sealed box that comes with the kit. Install was easy and the look is very clean. My pics show the trunk.
Currently the fuse it up front. I am going to add another one in the trunk when I relocate the kill switch. I don't drive the car during the winter so provided the snow melts soon I will get all this done by Spring. I will do this work when I remove the battery so I can install my rear strut tower bar.
It's really important to fuse at power source...otherwise you have a nice built in welder all the way from the trunk to the fuse up front....
I would get a breaker and use that...makes it much simpler in the long run....
I would get a breaker and use that...makes it much simpler in the long run....
How does a battery charge when the car is running. I was always under the assumption current flowed in both directions. From the battery to the starter when car needs to be started and from the alternator to the battery when the car is running. I am by no means an expert but just assumed this is how it worked.
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From: Manvel, Tx
How does a battery charge when the car is running. I was always under the assumption current flowed in both directions. From the battery to the starter when car needs to be started and from the alternator to the battery when the car is running. I am by no means an expert but just assumed this is how it worked.
I don't believe current can flow from both directions.... least not from what I've experienced and heard.
You either have Conventional flow (+ to - ) or Electron Flow (- to +)
Huh? By definition, current flows from + to -, however Mr. Ben Franklin guessed wrong when he defined '+' and '-'. The actual charge carriers in wires are electrons, which move from the '-' to the '+', but current is still considered to be moving from + to -.
yay, I can haz debate over electron flow vs hole flow in solid state physics? 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convent...urrent#Current
this is kinda rough, but it makes sense for/at the basic level
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convent...urrent#Current
this is kinda rough, but it makes sense for/at the basic level
A flow of positive charges gives the same electric current as a flow of negative charges in the opposite direction. Since current can be the flow of either positive or negative charges, or both, a convention for the direction of current which is independent of the type of charge carriers is needed. Therefore the direction of conventional current is defined to be the direction of the flow of positive charges.
For the purpose of this discussion......current flow requires only the fuse close to the battery 
Any short between the front and the battery fuse/ breaker in the trunk would break the connection and prevent a direct short to the battery.....
Any short between the front and the battery fuse/ breaker in the trunk would break the connection and prevent a direct short to the battery.....
but why'd you have to go and take the jam outta my doughnut *tear
I want some of your drugs You must be as bored as I am right now ...I have 4 more hour to kill in a Starbcks before I can pick my wife and daughter back up from the cheer competition
I COULD be home working on the garage..or even the car......But NO..I had to drive them an hour and a half to another city for this damn cheer thing....way too much estrogen in there for me
You must be as bored as I am right now ...I have 4 more hour to kill in a Starbcks before I can pick my wife and daughter back up from the cheer competitionI COULD be home working on the garage..or even the car......But NO..I had to drive them an hour and a half to another city for this damn cheer thing....way too much estrogen in there for me