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  1. ke5eua

    3rd Battery and Isolator

    Problem with solid state isolators is that there is a reverse voltage on diodes. It's usually less than 1 volt but if you don't use the vehicle every day you can still end up with dead batteries.
  2. ke5eua

    3rd Battery and Isolator

    I loved my 710, even had it tied to the avmap G5 and was great. Radio met a tragic end, still don't know what happened. Replaced it with the new yaesu aprs radio and lost transmit on 2 meters after about a year. I have a feeling the vehicle it was installed in had a bad alternator and I didn't...
  3. ke5eua

    3rd Battery and Isolator

    If you connect your radio positive to the cross over cable and ground to the chassis you'll be fine, but if you do it the opposite by putting the ground on the cross over and positive on the main positive wire going to your starter when you connect your antenna it will back feed 24v through the...
  4. ke5eua

    3rd Battery and Isolator

    Congrats on the upgrade. Just looked you up on qrz, all I can say is if you were / are in the military I'm sorry, lol
  5. ke5eua

    3rd Battery and Isolator

    That would be a bad idea since he is wanting to install radios that are also grounded through the antenna system. Tie into the first battery and save yourself sending your radios in for repair.
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