running without a battery
10-30-2008, 09:59 PM
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Re: running without a battery
Originally Posted by PhilStubbs
what do you want, the full size start your car battery, or the 5 pound battery? i am very limited on how many full size i can get, but i think i have like 6 of the small ones
10-30-2008, 10:37 PM
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Re: running without a battery
Originally Posted by ghettoturbo
yea but what if the engine stalled mid-air and they wanted to restart it?
Originally Posted by txdohczc
i need a fullsize one how much do those weigh
Originally Posted by N/A mike
how much for a small one shipped to san diego?
10-31-2008, 02:09 AM
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Re: running without a battery
Originally Posted by bigdaddyvtec
Im using a odyssey PC680... It doesnt weigh ----, is really small and I have a small system in trhe car (JL 10 and Fosgate 200 watt amp). It has yet to let me down... Even in the EX Accord with power everything.
Do it.
Do it.
10-31-2008, 01:20 PM
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Re: running without a battery
The battery is a storage cell for cranking the car, and the alternator is what supplies power to the system. I wouldn't run without a battery, though.
I have little love for those Odyssey batteries. They are a lot heavier than an equivalent-power lead-acid lawn mower battery, and about the same size. And they drain really fast, hook up a laptop and a wideband to the system and leave the engine/alternator off for 5 minutes, the car won't crank. Add in the $$$ pricetag and ---- those things. Even $50-something for the exact same thing in generic brand is a premium.
MISTER PHILL.... what is the amp rating of those 5lb units, and might I obtain one?
I have little love for those Odyssey batteries. They are a lot heavier than an equivalent-power lead-acid lawn mower battery, and about the same size. And they drain really fast, hook up a laptop and a wideband to the system and leave the engine/alternator off for 5 minutes, the car won't crank. Add in the $$$ pricetag and ---- those things. Even $50-something for the exact same thing in generic brand is a premium.
MISTER PHILL.... what is the amp rating of those 5lb units, and might I obtain one?
10-31-2008, 01:26 PM
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Re: running without a battery
i wont be able to find out anything about them till tuesday. i am getting married tomorrow and my life is a huge mess till monday night when everyone goes home. the batteries are at work and i am off today-monday.
i will see what the deal is with shipping batteries along with any info i can find on them
edit, they are exactly the same thing as this battery, but without the label
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXL370&P=M
i will see what the deal is with shipping batteries along with any info i can find on them
edit, they are exactly the same thing as this battery, but without the label
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXL370&P=M
10-31-2008, 01:40 PM
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Re: running without a battery
Originally Posted by PhilStubbs
edit, they are exactly the same thing as this battery, but without the label
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXL370&P=M
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXL370&P=M
If you put external battery terminals on your chassis, like you see drag cars do, and connect them to a jump box everytime you need to crank... that battery might work to preheat your wideband before you crank the engine over. :P
11-01-2008, 10:51 AM
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Re: running without a battery
Originally Posted by PhilStubbs
I plan to use a jump box to start the car and it will be a dediated track car so headlights and things like that aren't an issue
i also dont plan to run a wideband once the car is tuned and i can tune it with a full size battery in it. do i even need to run a battery at all? thats another 5lbs i can save. this race really has no rules
