Does your lightweight battery cause your gauge cluster to reset on start up?
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Does your lightweight battery cause your gauge cluster to reset on start up?
I'm running a PC680 battery and everytime I start my car the cluster and odometer reset just like when you load a new tune. You think it's because of the small battery? I put a new motor and turbo set up in the car this winter so I don't know if I have a issue or is this normal?
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Not thinking it's drain from sitting, I'm questioning if there is a voltage threshold that the cluster needs. An example would be that maybe when the engine is cranking the voltage drops enough to affect the cluster.
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When I had a brand new 99 z it would do it randomly. I never worried about it enough to get the warranty to fix it. The gauges would bounce off the pegs and the od would reset.
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this is exactly why I'm asking, to me it seems like a voltage drop that causes it when the engine cranks. I have no experience with this so all the input is great.
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Mine did it every time I started it after I took the stock battery out, tried the junk pc 680 battery for a year, absolutely hated it, thing would die of you let the cold never mind try to crank a 13.5 to 1 motor over with it more then twice in the same 10 minute period of time.
Put a full size in the front for 1 track day, still did the same thing. Moved it to the trunk, still did it. As soon as the stock battery was unhooked and removed, the car did it forever after.
Why? No idea, and really didn't care. Never made any difference in the way the car ran. Every ground in the car was 100%, I went thru that several times looking for an issue, all the power wires I ran, were oversized if anything, grounds, from one end of the car to the other had absolutely no resistance either (less then 2 ohm's from the front to the back of the car at any given point, compared to other cars I found this to be normal or low if anything)
Just one of those things, I wouldn't worry about it.
Put a full size in the front for 1 track day, still did the same thing. Moved it to the trunk, still did it. As soon as the stock battery was unhooked and removed, the car did it forever after.
Why? No idea, and really didn't care. Never made any difference in the way the car ran. Every ground in the car was 100%, I went thru that several times looking for an issue, all the power wires I ran, were oversized if anything, grounds, from one end of the car to the other had absolutely no resistance either (less then 2 ohm's from the front to the back of the car at any given point, compared to other cars I found this to be normal or low if anything)
Just one of those things, I wouldn't worry about it.
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Mine did it every time I started it after I took the stock battery out, tried the junk pc 680 battery for a year, absolutely hated it, thing would die of you let the cold never mind try to crank a 13.5 to 1 motor over with it more then twice in the same 10 minute period of time.
Put a full size in the front for 1 track day, still did the same thing. Moved it to the trunk, still did it. As soon as the stock battery was unhooked and removed, the car did it forever after.
Why? No idea, and really didn't care. Never made any difference in the way the car ran. Every ground in the car was 100%, I went thru that several times looking for an issue, all the power wires I ran, were oversized if anything, grounds, from one end of the car to the other had absolutely no resistance either (less then 2 ohm's from the front to the back of the car at any given point, compared to other cars I found this to be normal or low if anything)
Just one of those things, I wouldn't worry about it.
Put a full size in the front for 1 track day, still did the same thing. Moved it to the trunk, still did it. As soon as the stock battery was unhooked and removed, the car did it forever after.
Why? No idea, and really didn't care. Never made any difference in the way the car ran. Every ground in the car was 100%, I went thru that several times looking for an issue, all the power wires I ran, were oversized if anything, grounds, from one end of the car to the other had absolutely no resistance either (less then 2 ohm's from the front to the back of the car at any given point, compared to other cars I found this to be normal or low if anything)
Just one of those things, I wouldn't worry about it.