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Dual battery setup

Discussion in '1st Gen. Tacomas (1995-2004)' started by nat5nat11, Apr 19, 2020.

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  1. Jul 1, 2020 at 11:24 PM
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    Subbed. I have most of the stuff I need. I just need to wrap my head around “how to”
     
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  2. Jul 2, 2020 at 8:10 AM
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    Check the link in the first post of you haven't already, there's alot of good info buried in there for some how to's
     
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  3. Jul 2, 2020 at 9:16 AM
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    Yeah pretty much.

    In my case I have a pair of HID lights, fridge, ham radio, on board air, on board water, lights in the camper and I run a cpap machine at night.

    If I turn everything on at once it draws about 28amps.
    I never do this but it shows how much every thing draws which would kill my starter battery pretty quick.

    Also, the way I have it set up the 2nd battery system isolates the truck’s electrical from everything I’ve added. There’s Toyota’s engineering and manufacturing and there’s me.

    I do have the winch powered off the starter battery. My 2nd battery set up are true deep cycle batteries. They don’t do well with a rapid power drain like a winch does. My starter battery is designed for that.
     
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