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PostPosted: December 27, 2015, 4:06 pm 
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Hi, JD. Yup, am planning a battery. Street use and all that. Currently favoring an Odessey, either a 925 or 585 if I remember the numbers correctly. Prefer the smaller unit for packaging reasons, but the bigger one would have some extra headroom. Decisions, decisions....

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Now that you have it all figured out I'll ask you this: have you considered mounting the alternator somewhere with more space and running it off the driveshaft? Won't charge at idle but a decent battery should handle 60 amp draw for idle time. Just a thought


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PostPosted: January 18, 2016, 12:23 am 
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mckwrench wrote:
Now that you have it all figured out I'll ask you this: have you considered mounting the alternator somewhere with more space and running it off the driveshaft? Won't charge at idle but a decent battery should handle 60 amp draw for idle time. Just a thought
Yes, had considered several alternative locations, but space limitations there also. The reverse mount placement should work out space-wise pretty well. Primarily a matter of mount rigidity.

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mckwrench wrote:
Now that you have it all figured out I'll ask you this: have you considered mounting the alternator somewhere with more space and running it off the driveshaft? Won't charge at idle but a decent battery should handle 60 amp draw for idle time. Just a thought



I saw this done on a big block cobra replica once. The guy combatted the draw with a couple small solar panels flush mounted in the body, it was pretty wild!

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That's genius!


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