New Color / New Wetsounds Setup

Since I crave the approval of my fellow WakeWorlders here are some pictures of my new setup. The first pic is to show what didn't really come out all that great in the other pictures. Spectrum Brilliant Poly White. Cheers, Matt

Stereo

Only thing I'm not sure on is going back to Optimas. Reasoned that the 4 bank charger staying connected, and no maintnance is worth loosing some capacity. That said I'm never really away from a 120V outlet for more than a day at a time.











LOL Skeeter Branded charger. Came directly from CSI like that.

Looks great... I really like the wetsounds logo underr the vinyl...

Matt,

WOW, Looks awesome. Whoop!

E mail me the pics in high res and I will put them on the site

Tim
Wet Sounds

I love your attention to detail man, killer setup

Thats full blown legit! I love super clean systems and that sure as hell qualifies. Thats a really nice amp rack. Who did everything?

Thank's guys. The credit goes to Roland @ Audio Technologies in Houston. We wanted something literally bulletproof and he along with Omar and Tim @ Wetsounds came through. Forgot to add pictures, but some might be happy to know that you can fit 2 485's on a '07 and up tower w/ braces. Tim, I'll get you some good pictures when I finish cleaning the interior.

What's the point of putting a 4 bank charger on a bank of batteries that are all connected? Doesn't that just make them one big bank and therebby eliminate the need to run 3 of te 4 lines from the charger?

Not being a smartazz--really wondering!? I haven't hooked mine up yet, but figured it pointless unless there were disconnects between all the batteries.

According to Dual Pro:

"They can be used on batteries of differing state of charge, age, capacity, or type. This is handy in marine applications with a starting battery and a trolling setup, where the trolling batteries, tend to be significantly discharged, and the starting battery only needs topping off and maintenance. It can also be used for series strings of 12 volt batteries for 24 to 48 volts. Each battery gets its own positive and negative connection, and the microprocessor for each bank does not care if they are series or parallel connected. This is useful in 24 volt to 36 volt systems where one of the 12 volt batteries in the string is tapped for 12 volt loads like communications, GPS, radar, etc., and the batteries end up imbalanced. A 24 volt to 48 volt output charger used in an imbalance situation would not properly charge the pack and fix the imbalance."

They assured me the banks would charge and balance individually even while connected. The technical explanation they gave me seemed plausible, although my knowledge of the concepts they were using is basic at best.

Very Nice.

It does no serious harm to have the charger and batteries wired this way. Its really no different than having isolated batteries on isolated banks since the batteries are normally used as a single bank anyway. This is just like having a large single bank charger on four paralleled batteries. However, there is no way a multi-bank charger can read different profiles and run different programs into paralleled batteries.

Seriesed batteries are a different story because the four batteries would charge in isolation since the seriesed circuit is not closed until the trolling motor, switch, etc, is 'on.'

If I had cascading banks to bring on line with the alternator selectively then I would definitely need isolated banks for AC charging.

David
Earmark Marine

That makes far more sense.

Nice! Looks great, like the X-Star logo you did

Is one of the girls in your profile pic named Erin?

new setup Matt. sick boat. i'm an '01 Ag down in Houston too. where do yall usually ride? conroe?

very nice setup!

Do you know who makes that power distribution block?

Thank's Brian, and yes Erin dated one of my next door neighbors in College Station, fun chick.

Tro, we are usually on Conroe, but travel for the events around Houston and so on. If your out my way shoot me a message.

Joe, the main one is an old StreetWires unit that I can't seem to find any more. The single one is JL.

Like that distribution block. I could only find the kind that takes the maxi fuses. Since it only distributes to four amps is that the 5th amps power wire sneaking in the under the main wires?

I noticed your power and ground are off the same battery. The should be on opposite ends of the battery string.

Very slick looking boat and amazing stereo set up!

Matt, looks awesome. Did they cover the red metalflake? I didn't think that would be too easy to do.

Holy Crap! Very nice, I can hear it from here. It has to be the loudest around right?

J, off the power to the JL fused block right next to the large one.

Hate, Interesting. Again seems logical, wonder if David is around to comment.

Mike, they had everything out of the boat and took it down to Fiberglass. Sprayed the 40th Ruby Red flake for me, but for some reason could not get it looking right. I had been thinking of a 45 in this color so thought what the heck.

Looks great man.

Matt,

Regarding Hare's assertion about the ground cable... I can't make a definitive statement about that just in case we've done the same thing.

David
Earmark Marine

Hahah, Gotcha