Help. I am finally in the finishing phases of my stereo install but I have run into a problem. I am adding a secondary battery which my stereo will run off of. This Optima Yellow top has to posts and side posts. I was going to run 0 awg wire from the pos. lead on the primary battery to the pos. top post on the secondary battery. Then I was going to have 0 awg wire going from the side post to my d-block for my amps. Anyway, come to find out, the side posts aren't meant to have that much current drawn from them, so it appears that I need to find a way to have two 0 AWG wires going from the pos. top post of the battery. I can't seem to find such a pos. battery terminal w/ two 0 awg outputs (the one's I currently have, have one 0 awg, one 4 awg, and two 8 awg outputs). Any suggestions on what I might do?
Thanks
PS - I just a sticker on the battery that says it needs to be in a ventilated area. It was going to be in my spare tire well w/ the MDF amp rack above it. Is this a problem?
Sorry for the double post

 

Stinger's expert line has a dual 0ga out

Stinger's HPM and Custom pro have a setup where you can connect two screw type ring terminals of any size to a battery post - buy the post, then buy the two rings.

Tsunami also makes an integrated fuseblock/distribution setup for a standard sized Optima battery that is bad ***.

that's all I can think of off the top of my head

check sounddomain.com - they carry wire accessories for most major wire MFG's. If you need the stinger custom pro pieces, I have them, lightly used if you are interested.

 

i saw the Tsunami thing, but too expensive right now, and not exactly what I need. searched SoundDomain.com and found a couple things. Lightning Audio makes a dual 0 awg terminal, but it requires their square wire (stupid). or, like you said, I saw the dual post one. just seems like the other type makes a better connection than a bolt-on ring terminal, but maybe that's my only choice. - links below

Lightning Audio one, but requires their own square wire:
http://www.cardomain.com/item/LITSFBCU2

Stinger dual post for ring terminals:
http://www.cardomain.com/item/STISBTRP

 

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that's the exact one I had, and it worked great b/c you can assemble the wires to the terminals off the car, then attach it to the battery....easier IMO then trying to get all the strands into the terminal with it attached to the car if you know what I mean.

the only other people to try will be:

knukonceptz.com
IXOS - out of your price range
phoenix gold
monster cable
tiff - if you can find it
streetwires
rockfordfosgate
hooker audio

and that's all I can think of who supplies wire specifically for car audio.

 

thanks

 

hmm, i think i found a winner. do you think set screws or rind terminals offer a better connection. check out this link:
http://www.cardomain.com/item/PHOTMC902K

 

I think this one looks good, plus it has a built in 200 amp fuse, which I believe would mean I wouldn't need the 200 amp in-line fuse that I was going to put on the 1/0 wire going to the pos. terminal of the 2nd battery

 

The fuses are not included, and remember that only 1 of those outputs is fused. You won't need the inline fuse so this terminal is quite useful that way (hmm...unless you use the unfused outputs I guess)

I actually prefer screw-terminals to ring...either will work fine.

Knukonceptz has good deals on power wire, if you're having trouble. If you need just any cheap wire, some people use welding cable (I used this to thoroughly ground a few connections in the engine bay).