Anyone here run a 16v setup in their car? I just got my hands on a 16v alternator and will be ordering a 14v battery. I wired from the alt to the battery in 0 gauge, ordered two regulators for the ecu to only see 12v and 14v at the respective pinouts. I am wondering if there is anything else in a 90s car that would hate 16v. I might do the taillights so they are not bright as fuck.
For what purpose.
>>28931791If you want a more powerful battery, just buy a nice lithium car battery.Those usually have a steady state charge of 14.4+ volts and are super powerful.
>>28931797The difference in behavior of the car at 14.x volts vs 12.x is astounding. It's like every aspect of its personality is on roids. I see people are running 16v for drag only cars, so my thought was why not make the system operate between 16 and 14v always rather than 14x and 12.5. No foul, only gain.
>>28931815What aspects? Nothing in your car uses motors except the fuel pump, but you're not a 15 liter car running alcohol.
>>28931819I run a 2345a.The personality of the car positively increases with voltage. I wish for 16v at best and 14v at worse rather than 14.x at best and 12.x at worse.
>>28931841Well that pump requires 16v, so why are you asking /o/. And why does your renault need a 250gph fuel pump.
>>28931815>>28931841>it's better because it just isIn what way lmao?
>>28931815How stupid are you?Cars aren't actually "12 volts".If an alternator is running at under 13.7v, its bad.Conversely, overvolting will damage components. Theres a ballast resistor on your ignition coil that drops voltage down to about 9v. Its bypassed during starting so your coil receives maximum voltage but when running the nominal 14.4v of a standard system will overheat and fry a coil.You should really study automotive science more before you frankenfuck your wagie transporter pod.
>>28931791get a lifepo4 battery, but better performance (note: the chinkshit ones, aka all of them, die after 1-3 years). You can immediately notice an improvement in cranking.
>>2893179116 volts? Go for 25V Why stop now? Go big or go home
>>28932076>>28931841How stupid are you? Your reading comprehension shows nonexistent at times.A ballast resistor? It's not a fucking model T.
>>28931791Say what nigga?Zener diodes act as voltage regulators within even basic circuits.There's no benefit here.
>>28931791yeah i have 16 valves
>>28932997the words of a person that doesnt have a car.
>>28932076>Theres a ballast resistoranon i don't think OP has an old mopar lol
>>28931791Lithium bats are all 14.5V or greater Just get one of those.
You guys are fucking crazy.
>>28931791Won't that fuck with all the sensors that need to be a specific voltage to read correctly
>>28932984Stupid ass zoomie has never driven anything made before 2000. I forget faggots with birth years starting with “20” are allowed to post here now…
Not OP but semi related:>Ford has officially confirmed it is adopting a 48-volt electrical architecture for its next-generation electric vehicles, starting with a new mid-size electric truck targeted for release in 2027. Basically you can use much thinner copper wires to transmit the same amount of power. Its a cost saving measure during manufacturing, and supposedly its more efficient overall in something like a car or truck. the 16v systems in race cars is a matter of 'oomph' and being slightly more efficient overall.
>>28931791You should try 24V. Easy swap.
>>28933551>You should try 24V.No.>Easy swap.No.>>28933405>Won't that fuck with all the sensors that need to be a specific voltage to read correctlyYES.>>28933539>Basically you can use much thinner copper wires to transmit the same amount of power.True, but no circuit in the current 12V paradigm is utilizing more than 50A, or 600W anyway.They are NOT going to shift to super brittle 24AWG without paying the price via LOST DURABILITY, especially over time.Brittle, broken conductors.
>>28931791
>>28933539Yeah they should swtich to a 27KV system and save even more copper
guys with drag cars don't run 16 volts because there is no benefit.
>>28933609You talk like a fag and your shits all fucked
>>28933005Damn came here to make the same joke for the same car
>>28933609>LOST DURABILITY, especially over timeThat'll be the main reason they're doing it. Costing less upfront is an added benefit
>>28937115>>28933609Can you guys explain how smaller gauge wires are more brittle and less durable? Is it simply fewer stands of chipper more likely to break resulting in fewer contiguous strands?
>>28931812I've got a lithium main cranking battery and the Haltech doesn't like it. Or rather, the alternator doesn't like it which is upsetting the Haltech. Since the battery can switch itself out of the system when it's fully charged, the voltage reg in the alt doesn't get a good read on the battery state and so pumps its output voltage up too high, like 14.9v. In actual fact the alternator output voltage is swinging up and down very rapidly and with no lead battery to stablize it, this means the whole car system voltage is swinging up and down rapidly. The Haltech uses the input voltage (battery voltage) as a reference for all other readings and outputs and so the engine behaviour is swinging up and down rapidly. This manifests as surging at idle as if its got a supercharger/drag cam. Whilst driving especially at low speeds the engine power output is random and un-predictable resulting in a jerking back and forth.
>>28931812>>28937309A 14v battery with a 14v alternator won't do anything. There is a reason the battery and alternator are a couple volts apart.
>>28937309Get a big capacitor. Big
>>28931841>The personality of the car positively increases with voltageStupidest fucking nigger on the dumbest fucking board on the gayest fucking tranime website in the world
>>28931791At this point I'd just do a 3 phase
>>28937635post less, troll harder.
I run 24V
>>28931791why
>>28938030Eat a bag of nigger dicks newfag
>>28937627I was wondering about things like that. Capacitor you reckon? I was ideating a huge ballast resistor, like 500w somewhere under the car with a fan blowing on it. Something to load the battery up enough that the BMS never switches the battery off due to full SOC/over voltage. I go camping and run a fridge off the lithium cranking battery. When it's at a non-100% SOC the car runs much smoother.
>>28937703alternators already generate 3 phase AC, it's just they have a 3 phase full bridge rectifier as well to turn it into DC.
