Has anyone added a second battery?

If so, where did you install it and how?

Thanks

 

If you are looking for greater power supply you can wire them in series meaning you connect the positive on battery 1 to the negative on battery 2. Then you just have the original cables (feeds or whatever they are actually called) connected to the the negative on battery 1 and the positive on battery 2. For some cool ideas on how to do it really clean https://www.expeditionexchange.com/optima/. I must say that Odyssey batteries are better if you can shell ou the $ for them.

Hopefully this will show (it's a battery connected in series).

 

No dont hook them in series that makes 24 volts and you will let the magic smoke out of lots of your electronic stuff. They would have to be hooked up parallel which is positive to positive, negative to negative. That picture on Living Stills post looks like 6 volt batteries.

 

X2 Would be a very expensive hook up

 

Thanks for the replies, I am well versed in electrical connections as I do it for a living in the marine industry.

I should have been more precise in my question, let me try again.

How and where would you physically install a second battery?

PS Living Still, I am looking at you link.

 

Hey sorry about that! Good thing someone corrected me. I had this conversation with a friend of mine just 2 days ago and I think he seriously confused me lol :confused: . You could build a new battery box for under the hood or Blue Torch Fabrication makes really trick battery boxes that you can put pretty much anywhere. Trunk maybe? http://www.bluetorchfab.com/shop/ind...?cPath=135_174

- Living Still

 

Some has perform a magic trick to fit another battery.

 

I have located a company in CA that is in finale stages of testing a dual battery setup for the JK. The company is:
http://www.kodiakinc.com/contact.html

They have a system that will fit into the current locating, no mods, that uses 2 ODYSSEY® Drycell™ batteries producing 1800+ cold cranking amps. Complete power management system is included, hardware. $ TBD but in the ballpark of $650-700.

Six months a system that is more involved but has 2400 CCA


Kodiak Industries, Inc
Gilroy, CA. 95020
Tel: ************

Also, tire sensors can be reset, it is all in the computer. Find a dealer that has the tools unblocked and it takes about 1 minute.

 

There's a good article in the March 08 Off Road mag.about the Smaller Dry Cell dual battery set up .

 

If you want to do two full size batteries I agree. But, you can add a small dry cell battery pretty easily and you will have more than enough power for lights and a bunch of accessories. I was in a car stereo shop the other day that had dry cell batteries that were 4"x7.5"x6.5". You could squeeze one of those in a JK pretty easily I think. 680 amps too.