New Stereo in 2010 RZ2

[Vicseek]

Thanks for all the input!

CHP: Here is the website, it's "Basic Car Audio Electronics" http://www.bcae1.com/wire.htm It's pretty interesting and has been a good review for me! I'm assuming he's talking about DC for everything.

As for battery chargers, I purchased this one last fall but haven't got to use it much. It's mounted near my batteries and I can simply pull up a cup holder on the transom to access the cord and plug it into an AC outlet. Its suppose to do the whole fast charge, trickle, then top off to near 100%, then perform a maintenance charge every 24hrs to keep the batteries topped off. Supposedly you can simply leave it plugged in!
NOCO Genius GEN2 20 Amp 2-Bank Waterproof Smart On-Board Battery Charger
2 Bank Battery charger.jpg

[chpthril]

With only 10A available per bank, that charger is going to work very hard to replenish a 200 Ah bank thats run down. I would see what the manufacturer has to say about using both bank leads to charge a single bank of 2 batteries wired in parallel. They may suggest a disconnect to separate them for charging.

[Vicseek]

I'll definitely look into that for sure!
I know their website says it charges and maintains all types of lead-acid batteries from 25-230Ah, including Wet, Gel, MF, and AGM.

[Vicseek]

Here is a quick video from yesterday after my initial sound check and quick tune. All speakers are now at Unity and all LEDs work! I didn't hear much clipping, especially for the subs! The gain is set all the way up for those channels 1&2. She thumps! Too bad the mic on the IPhone just washes out when I turn it up, but trust me she'll make your ears bleed. The SD2 really made my tower speakers come alive! I definitely heard some clipping while tuning those speakers and had to back off the gain set to about 3/4; makes sense since my original SYN2 was only pushing 350watts vs 620watts the SD2 pushes at 2ohms!

[JLG]

nice work love the leds in the speakers

[chpthril]

Looks great! Did you swap the 650;s for the RGB 650's or load your own?

With the amps gain being that high, did you happen to adjust the levels in the 420? With rev-8 on an SD-2, I would expect the gains to be near zero.