Today is DUAL BATTERY DAY!
That's right... today is the day I go big and drop in two Odyssey Extremes and a Genesis Offroad JK Dual Battery Kit! It's time. I was avoiding this for a while, but came to realize that it needed to happen.
ODYSSEY Extreme Series Battery
http://www.odysseybattery.com/extreme_batteries.aspx
Twice the overall power and three times the service life of conventional batteries
Some batteries offer enormous cranking power. Others, deep cycle reserve power. Unbeatable ODYSSEY® Extreme Series™ batteries do both. Even at very low temperatures, ODYSSEY Extreme Series batteries have the power to provide engine-cranking pulses in excess of 2250 amps for 5 seconds – double to triple that of equally sized conventional batteries. And they can handle 400 charge-discharge cycles to 80% depth of discharge.
How so much power is possible?
ODYSSEY Extreme Series batteries are made with flat plates made of 99.99% pure lead – not lead alloy. Pure lead plates can be made thinner, so we can fit more of them in the battery. More ODYSSEY battery plates mean more plate surface area. And that means more power – twice as much as conventional batteries.
Packed with more power
Like many popular spiral-wound batteries, ODYSSEY Extreme Series batteries employ dry cell Absorbed Glass Mat (AGM) technology to contain acid, allowing the battery to be installed even on its side. But the densely packed flat plates in an ODYSSEY Extreme Series battery avoid the “dead space” between cylinders in a “six pack” design. The result is 15% more plate surface area — and that translates to more power!
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Genesis Off Road JK DUAL BATTERY KIT
https://www.genesisoffroad.com/JKDualBatteryKit-p/131-jkdbk.htm
Completely pre-wired out of the box
Fits 3.8L, 3.6L, Hemi 5.7L & 6.4L, LS, and European diesel engines
Boost switch included - jump start your vehicle off your second battery
Power & Ground bus bars make it easy to connect accessories
Smart Isolator automatically handles all charging functions
NEW FEATURE! Interface port pre-wired for the G Screen monitoring system
Integrated fuse box holder and evap solenoid holder
Best quality wires, tin-plated copper connectors, and sealed heat shrink tubing
Powder coated for durability
Proudly made in the USA
The top cover plate has several innovative features in a simple package. All of the wiring has already been done for you, and the smart isolator comes pre-installed. The welded gussets on top have holes with grommets to route the wires directly to the correct battery post, so there's no guess work involved to make the connections. Use the extra grommets for routing your own accessory wires cleanly and neatly to the power and ground bus bars. High quality battery terminal connectors are crimped to the flexible 2 gauge wire connecting the batteries together. With all the wiring integrated into the top plate, servicing your batteries has never been easier. Simply pull the terminals off the battery posts, remove the 4 easily accessible bolts securing the lid, and all the wiring can be lifted up and out of the way to service your batteries when necessary.
The included smart isolator gives you automatic control of all the charging functions with no interaction required.
Here's how it works.
When both your batteries are fully charged at 13.2 volts, they are automatically connected and are charged at the same time.
When you park and turn off the engine, but continue to use accessories such as lights or the stereo or a CB, both batteries begin to drain down.
When your main cranking battery reaches 12.7 volts, the smart isolator separates the batteries, so that your cranking battery will have enough power to start the engine. The second battery continues to power your accessories for as long as it will last.
After you crank the vehicle, your main cranking battery will be charged up to 13.2 volts first, and then the isolator will begin charging your accessory battery. By only charging one battery at a time, your alternator is protected from excessive strain.
What if your cranking battery is somehow drained down too low to be able to start the vehicle? We have a solution for that.
Press the Start Boost button and the isolator will connect both batteries together for 1 minute, acting like built-in jumper cables to jump start your engine off your accessory battery.
As long as the accessory battery has enough power, you'll be able to start your vehicle instead of being stranded with a dead battery!
The alternator will charge both batteries for 1 minute, then switches back over to automatic mode to reduce the strain on your alternator.
Sunday, December 17, 2017
Genesis Offroad Dual Battery Kit and Odyssey Extreme Installation - 2015 Jeep JK Wrangler
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcQff8qHojw&w=640&h=360]
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my dad got an odyssey a couple years ago. we talked to a rep at an off-road show in orange county and liked what we heard with the high amount of cranking amps.
ReplyDeleteOne of the things most interesting about these are they are a true dual purpose battery. You don't have to have a "cranking" battery and an "deep cycle" battery...these are both dual cycle strong cranking amps. I've done more research into batteries than I care to admit... it's fascinating trying to learn the differences. They also use pure virgin lead instead of recycled lead... so the flat plates can be much thinner- and thus they can use more of them in the same space.
ReplyDeleteNice vid. Now maybe an sPod type of setup to clean up that wiring.....lol just kidding. Quick question.... because of your snorkel setup, does that mean you didn’t have to cut out and reinstall that section of the original tray?
ReplyDeleteI actually have a wiring pod, but all of my high amp accessories are straight to the battery (winch, air compressor). Everything else goes to the pod... with exception of the camera which is fuse-tapped in at the box for accessory power. That's the only one in the mix that isn't connected to the genesis but is sorta in the way still because of the wire routing.
ReplyDeleteTo answer your second question... you clearly must not have watched the entire video... because I talked about it in the intro and then spent some time on this. Jump to 12:30.
I did watch the whole vid.... don’t know how I missed that..... mea culpa. That’s what I get for watching on a Sunday morning with a hangover lol
ReplyDeleteMike Gonsalves ha! I miss stuff all the time! I was just messing with you btw.. prob should have put a winky face. Lol.
ReplyDeleteYou should have started the engine and let it run a little. Would have kept you warm while you worked on it.
ReplyDeleteha! It actually wasn't too bad once the morning frost warmed up!
ReplyDeleteAre you considering the boost button switch?
ReplyDeleteInfinity 13 Marketing not sure what you mean? I guess the answer is no... Hahaha
ReplyDeleteOVERCLOCK3D Jeeps - yes there is a separate switch that you can mount inside the jeep that is a boost switch vs having to actually push the button on the battery under the hood.
ReplyDeleteInfinity 13 Marketing cool. I saw the g-screen add on, but didn't see the external boost button. However, I don't think I'd do that anyway. I hope that the boost isn't something I'll use very often. :-)
ReplyDeletei need one of these kits for my rig!
ReplyDeletesweet man, I run same setup except for genesis I used nationa luna and wired it myself. they are serious batteries for sure, make sure your alternator can keep up.
ReplyDeleteIt baffles me how Genesis has made a name for themselves within the Jeep industry. I do a lot of work in the custom mobile audio world, SPL competition builds w/ vehicles running over a dozen group 31 AGM's, multiple alternators & miles of 1/0 awg OFC & no industry is reliant on mobile batteries more. For the last decade there's 2, maybe 3 battery companies vying for the top spot, XS Power, Northstar, & Full River/Throttle with Kinetik, Shuriken & Reikken close runner ups & Dekka for the budget minded. Genesis isn't even part of the equation nor is Optima for that matter. Optima finally debuted their new Yellow top at SEMA which just cloned what XS & Northstar have been doing for a decade already no w...yet within the Jeep industry they're considered Top of the line. The battery isolator technology they use in their dual set-up is far from new, on the contrary, it's antiquated. Mobile Audio industry abandoned that eons ago. At the end of the day, you're still asking a single altetnator to juggle charging 2 batteries & no matter how you slice it up, a single alt will is incapable of topping off 2 batteries w/o the aid of an external charger. But the way they market it, they make it sound ground breaking. The optimal way of charging multiple batteries is simply, get a H/O alternator. Hairpin style, hand wound stators w/ overdrive pulleys that'll put out 300-400 amps & charge half a dozen group 31's simultaneously with no need for isolators for a fraction of the price that Genesis is asking.. Genesis system is nothing more than Marketing BS in an Industry that's a cash cow. Jeep has the biggest aftermarket of any vehicle being produced. SEMA was dominated by off-road industry, specifically Jeeps, where anything promoted properly can make a killing. IE...Aerolidz is marketing an over-sized plastic tube as a light bar noise reduction solution...$130 for a 52" clear plastic straw & selling like hot cakes. Don't be fooled by marketing gimmicks, do your homework.
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