Welcome to mikegolden Games, today I'm going to be installing a dual battery setup I
got the box right over here's the box here the previous video you guys saw
this just an extra basically light bar cable we got this right here the stinger
isolator relay they try and get that in focus and I'm using my GoPro but so this
is what we're going to be using this isolator again I'll have everything in
the description of the video which I forgot to do for the LED light bar video
which has not gone up yet so I'm going to have to do that get the links to
everything and then I got a Cobra power inverter cable kit basically you could
just go and get a instead of using this you could just get some jumper cables
and cut them up but because the connectors I need and it's got a few the
shrink-wrap tubing which you'll need one for in this box which I'm not sure I'll
probably do this at the end of the video bubble rock badass smittybilt seed cover
it should be in black at least when I ordered hopefully it's in black the
cover shows its tan but so you got like all these pouches in the back and this
is the seat cover right there this is the back of the seat really cool looking
hopefully it actually has all the stuff I didn't think it had to buy eight
bought separately but there's a picture like inside a jeep I think it looks
pretty cool then here's the back of the box let me know what you guys think and
if you've used this seat cover before let me know as well and if you guys are
using the dual battery setup let me know in the comments how you did it let me
know if you think I did a good job of it maybe just go to my facebook page send
me some pictures of it so I can see how you guys set it up but alright let's get
into it
ok so now we've got a full view of the engine so we're going to start with is
the isolator I suppose and that you want to actually closest to your starting
battery which is all the way over there I'm thinking I'll put my auxiliary
battery right down in here I'll have to make sure it'll fit first just want to
get these wires and hoses out of the way for the battery to fit in
there's my I actually just bought this battery so I got the battery in there
now but it took a little finesse to get in there because you got these wires
down there you got to make sure you don't you know pull them with the
battery then you got this big thick wire which you saw from the LED light bar
install which comes out of the firewall right down there so you don't have a
much room to work with but I got it to fit a little little spider right on
there you see that little orange thing alright so what we're going to be doing
now is taking off the isolator like over the Box up and we got our wiring diagram
in here which kind of helps us out a little bit and there's actually a wiring
diagram in the back too so I'm not a hundred percent sure if
this is the correct isolator that I want it to be because there's a few different
kind the one I'm thinking of and what I want is just basically if the main
battery stops charging or you know goes dead whatever the second one kicks in
and starts trying to charge it anyway so here's the isolator and what we're going
to do is Mount it somewhere around here by the battery another thing I just
bought from Harbor Freight is this power inverter which basically it's got two
12-volt ports and a USB port so I can charge my phone my GoPro might you know
Canon whatever I need to charge I can do this while driving so right now she's
got the battery terminal hook up what I'm going to try and do is actually wire
this great to the exhilarate airy and just
have waters go through the firewall and have this like maybe under the steering
wheel somewhere maybe the passenger seat compartment so yeah it's another thing
we're going to try and do in this video all right so I got the inverter hooked
up I want to test it to make sure it works before I cut all the wires up
let's remove that cap and we'll focus and that right there and we've got power
not sure how this fan works right now it's not going but we got power I'm
going to go get my phone charger and plug it in see if it works
made a beep noise so one more thing I got from Harbor Freight is the set of
jumper cables there's actually seven bucks so what I'm going to do is
actually cut these off use this to power the power inverter through the firewall
and if I need any more I can go back to Harbor Freight for seven bucks so this
is heavy-duty wire we do want both of these one for the positive one for the
negative on the power inverter going to basically do this and it's only seven
bucks there and I'll just toss that in the box
for later case we ever need it
and there we go all right might be a little hard to see got my full light on
now and I just got to push through a tiny bit so now I'm going to actually
move the battery again and pull those through all the way but through the
firewall alright so I got the wires through the firewall and they're ready
to go just going to put the terminals on first basically here wait no this is
negative this is positive and I just got to put the terminals on and then I'll
snip these a little more and then apply them to the terminals which I'll show
you in a bit all right so I got these venturi terminals from Walmart actually
we got them a while ago having used them for anything it's going to put a little
CLP on here to help with preventing rust and whatnot oxidation and all that good
stuff all right I got these wires all connected now so basically I just you
know cut the wires and then put these clips on and then crimped it down with a
pair of pliers I didn't show that in video because I don't think it's really
necessary all you got to do is just crimp it down
and you're good but if you have any questions you know let me know in the
comments but alright so right now we got the battery all set up these are ready
to go on I want to hook up the battery to that battery first eartha to the
inverter first so anyways we're going to go to that side now we're going to go
over over to the other side night okay so now it gets a little more complicated
so basically according to this diagram we got one of these smaller ones that is
a ground and then the other one is to the true ignition so that would be you
to this terminal right here now what it also says is okay so either one can be
for either and then either these can go for either one so one of these goes to
the positive terminal on the main battery then the other one goes to the
positive terminal on the other battery and then one of these will be like I
said the ground so before we do anything we do want to disconnect the negative
terminal on the battery that way we don't you know have any current going
through it and then we don't accidentally you know shock ourselves or
you know pull up anything alright so I got the terminal disconnected put a
piece of cardboard in between the terminal and the connector that way it
doesn't touch and you know give us any sparking so now
I just gotta get this to the ground which I'm actually going to probably
mount it like this and then put some screws through the handle for the
battery right there and then this will just go straight to the ground which
there's a bolt right here for this structural support whatever you want to
call it not sure the technical name for these okay so now I got the negative
terminal for the auxiliary battery I'll basically hooked up and now it's to
finish it off and use some shrink tubing okay looks like it's a little too windy
out come on there we go a little hot there's that side and then if I can get
this other side
all right so that's kind of shitty job but you know it's good enough don't
really need it I put quick and CLP in there so it's got a really good rust
preventative all right so I got the negative terminal on the battery wired
up to right there as a ground I haven't hooked up the positive yet
what we're going to do actually is come over here and we're going to drill the
holes for this somewhere right in there so I'll get that set up in a second
alright so I'm going to do is just start a small little poll right here just so I
know where to mark it and then on the other side so now as you can see I got a
little hole there and a little hole there now I'm just going to drill
through it so I can actually get the screws in there all right now so before
I forget I just want to say with these bolts these are the bolts that came from
right here with the engine support our engineer enforcement whatever you want
to call it what I did with these is I took that dremel tool I got and just
ground down the paint because there is some paint on here a little rough to
look like there's some kind of silicone or something whatever
so just ground it down make sure it's good contacts or the ground wires all
right it's now time for the moment of truth is the car gonna blow up
so far so good
okay so far so good alright so I just used a voltmeter to make sure the new
battery is charging it's charging so we're good it was up to 13 volts instead
of 12 what is charging just so you guys know
what to look for so now I got the wires again from the engine concurrently
through the firewall and I'm going to slice done into the inverter so we can
have it hooked up through the car and charge our phone camera or whatever we
want anytime we want I sent out for the inverter what I did with those power
cables is I just cut them here and attach this connector and I'm just going
to actually go straight to here and then put a washer on like that and then it's
a little hard to do with only two pins and then just screw it on there we go
one of them be a little careful just because it is a lot of wire and just be
careful you know where you have it placed but that should be good and I'm
going to do the same with the other all right so now how the inverter wires
hooked up to the battery here so I have not PI strapped it to the engine
compartment yet so I'm going to need to do that after this it's getting dark
though so I got to wrap it up so let's set it to here I guess alright so now
let's plug in the phone and let's turn it on there we go it's charging it works
amazing alright looks like it started to rain cuz it's been closed now I'm going
to tie strap the main wire and a fist right now it's starting to rain so and
it looks like we're good so hopefully I did like this episode it's just a lube I
thought I cut myself okay I hope you guys do like sub stuff let me know what
you guys thought of the video if there's anything I left out let me know in the
comments make sure I hope you guys did like it either right also have a great
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