>From many car audiophiles point of view, the best way of installing high power amplifiers and many of the audio equipment's, is to attach the supply and ground lines directly to the battery. This way you will minimize or reduce all "electrical noises" that the vehicle and its components can induce. Many car audio companies produces and supply battery terminals "add ons" accessories to help with these issues of corrosion and or stressing the terminal mechanically. These add ons terminals accessories are a necessity to reconnect the original vehicles wires while offering the ability to connect the new heavy gauge wires of the audio equipment in a safe and correct manner. Don't wire for fire or learn by burn. Kayo Ong #5508 Lic 9D NY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------- In a message dated 1/15/03 4:13:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, jtrealty@xxxx writes: > > > In general it is not good practice to hook additional wires directly > to the battery terminals, + or -. You start to get into issues of > corrosion and maintaince, when you remove the battery you may not > notice and hook up any extra wires. The best place to go with > additional grounds would be where things are already grounded to the > frame. If you have a really heavy or "special" thing to ground the > absolute best place would be where the cable from the battery connects > to the frame. Of course all the warnings about clean and tight rule so > when disturbing any ground points make sure everything goes back > together "clean and tight". > David Teitelbaum > vin 10757 > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]