Live radio hookup on my X1100C

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don bon jovi

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I know this has been on here before,because l have seen it.But l can't find it in the search. I have a 1100c with a factory cab and would like to be able to use the radio when we are out working without leaving the key switch in the on position. or how much more battery does it use if l do just leave the switch on...l'm sure a lot??? Thanks everyone!
 
Stereos pull generally 5-10 amps so whatever the amp rating on your battery, usually 100 or so, will let you know how long it will run. The problem is what amp rating does the battery need to start the RTV? I'd guess an hour or so with a good battery should be ok.

Don't confuse CCA with normal battery amperage. Bob
 
The fuel shutoff solenoid will be energized anytime the switch is on, but there is no coil and points to burn up with the power on. Not sure if the hour meter will run with no oil pressure.
Bryce
 
If the hour meters are the same on the new style and old style, it will accumulate hours when the key/accessory is on. I can hear mine click every few seconds when I hold for the glow plugs. I wired all of my accessories through that console I made, and have breakers and fuses between it and the direct connection to the battery. I then can turn on my on demand sprayer (or whatever I have plugged into that pigtail) from the seat. My radio is on a switch , (the hyd oil cooler I added is on a switch and is on only when I use it). I have probably 5 pig tails ready and waiting , but never use them without the engine running except for the radio. I listen to it a lot and haven't had a cranking problem with mine but, I would do a test close to a charger if it were me. collie
 
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Pretty much the same set-up as Miss Collie above with an overhead switch/fuse panel for the various extras.........The big difference is mine is hooked up straight to the battery going to a separate fuse panel and THEN up to the switch panel..........The Fuse panel is there on the bulkhead next to the factory with the branches going out to locations from there....

For me, it's kinda like if I am dumb enough to leave the radio/accessory on long enough to kill the battery, then I need to pay the price of jumping it. Got one of those portable jumper/compressor gizmo things and then if it is in the barn, I pull out the aircraft starter cart and fire it up..................God bless........Dennis
 
if your in the sunlight alot whay not just put a small solar panel on the roof an run it to a small atv battery to run the radio.maybe install to battery disconect switch that way when your rtv is running you can charge the atv battery fully .i know my son has a radio on his grizzley and he runs the radio for a good while without any problems.and sisne the atv battery is so small it won't put a strain on the chargeing system on the rtv. also sisne they are so small you would be able to mount it just about anyplace.
 
Peanut said:
if your in the sunlight alot whay not just put a small solar panel on the roof an run it to a small atv battery to run the radio.maybe install to battery disconect switch that way when your rtv is running you can charge the atv battery fully .i know my son has a radio on his grizzley and he runs the radio for a good while without any problems.and sisne the atv battery is so small it won't put a strain on the chargeing system on the rtv. also sisne they are so small you would be able to mount it just about anyplace.
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I hardly ever listen to the radio or the CD player in my truck--I'll be darned if I put one in my RTV! But if one likes radio, nothing wrong with installing one. Different strokes...
 
I am not afraid of weather so work outside in it often. ( I don't mess with lightening though) Many years ago, before the birth of the RTV, I was working in the pasture a good ways from the house. Anyways it is dark sky but no rain so I am working as I listen to the radio..then a weather alert comes on( the govt kind with the bonk bonk noise). I look up and an immensely dark cloud is on the horizon.. The alert says the tornado will be in Flora at 12:34 and I look at my watch and it is 12:29... Just that fast... the wind got up and I could hardly open and close the gates climbing in and out of that old truck.As I go home the wind was fierce and I grabbed a piece of instruction booklet I had outside by the back door. We all ran and got in the little NE bathroom and stayed...creaking and popping .... only the Lord kept us from being destroyed in that wooden house up on brick piers. We had no power in the house for 3 days because of the trees down in the yard. Also found a feed trough in a cornfield a half mile from where it was.
I keep a radio with a weatherband and use it when conditions merit but I do listen to my KLOVE station all the time- mostly on my headphones.. never loud on the RTV though. I agree in that it is a problem when people next to you have music on and you prefer quiet- but the cows like it . ;) . collie

edit: I don't have a "smart" phone.
 
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bordercollie said:
I am not afraid of weather so work outside in it often. ( I don't mess with lightening though) Many years ago, before the birth of the RTV, I was working in the pasture a good ways from the house. Anyways it is dark sky but no rain so I am working as I listen to the radio..then a weather alert comes on( the govt kind with the bonk bonk noise). I look up and an immensely dark cloud is on the horizon.. The alert says the tornado will be in Flora at 12:34 and I look at my watch and it is 12:29... Just that fast... the wind got up and I could hardly open and close the gates climbing in and out of that old truck.As I go home the wind was fierce and I grabbed a piece of instruction booklet I had outside by the back door. We all ran and got in the little NE bathroom and stayed...creaking and popping .... only the Lord kept us from being destroyed in that wooden house up on brick piers. We had no power in the house for 3 days because of the trees down in the yard. Also found a feed trough in a cornfield a half mile from where it was.
I keep a radio with a weatherband and use it when conditions merit but I do listen to my KLOVE station all the time- mostly on my headphones.. never loud on the RTV though. I agree in that it is a problem when people next to you have music on and you prefer quiet- but the cows like it . ;) . collie

edit: I don't have a "smart" phone.
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Well, I guess that's an excellent reason to have a radio. I don't have a smart phone, either, but my cell phone will start beeping if there is a tornado warning.
Last year I was in my turkey blind (a large pop-up type that I keep permanently at the edge of my pasture, in the trees, secured with stakes and guy cords tied to trees and more stakes). There was a violent thunderstorm, and the phone beeped. The message said there was a tornado warning. Well, what with lightning striking close to where I was, and the rain that now was coming down by the bucketful, I decided to stay put. Walking 300 yards in an open pasture with lightning hitting close didn't seem too wise. In minutes the sky got really dark and the wind began to increase. I had to grab the metal rods that hold up the blind's roof and literally hang from them to keep the blind from lifting its skirts and flying away. It must have been just the edge of a weak twister, or I would have looked like Mary Poppins flying in the sky with the blind--or like Dorothy of the Wizard of Oz... Oh well! Where I lived before (Kodiak, Alaska) there were no tornadoes--just hurricanes, earthquakes, and tsunamis... I guess that living in Alabama is just a little bit safer. One only has to worry about tornadoes, black widows, brown recluse spiders, and 6 types of venomous snakes! I already had an encounter with a very large cottonmouth and dispatched a timber rattler that had cornered my wife between the garage and the horse corral.
BTW, in Kodiak I experienced a 7.2 quake that lasted about 10 seconds. Every Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. they tried out the tsunami warning sirens. There was never a significant tsunami when I was there (1984-2013), but several quakes. When I went duck hunting in the tidal flats I knew that if a small to medium tsunami had arrived I would have been toast--soggy toast... It would have taken me 20 minutes to reach the truck and five more minutes to drive to a higher spot. It would have been futile trying. If the tsunami originates close to the coast, it'll only take a few minutes for it to strike. Even the tsunami alarm sirens would hardly save anyone.
 
I don't listen to the radio in my truck it stays off I have over 350 songs in my smart phone and I keep my earplugs in.that way I never miss a call and like bordercollie said it goes crazy when bad wheather hits .was at work one day and a wheather alert came through this old guy was wondering what the hell was going on with my phone. I showed him it was a bad wheather alert and showed him the radar and what was heading our way .all he could say was damn back in the day we just looked at the clouds.lol.
 
I guess each place has it's problems. 3 tornadoes are enough for me though.. We had a little earthquake here (Canton MS) this weekend. I didn't feel it and the automatic weather/gov't alert radio never came on - but it did make national news just because it was so rare. A fellow that came to get a bull said the ground shuttered like when a big tree hits the ground. I am going to the home place in Ark to do maintenance so I hope the radio doesn't sound alerts of any kind while I am there. I have a lot to do. and am taking my radio headphones for that loud lawnmower .. ;) . See ya'll Wednesday evening unless.... :tiphat: collie
 
Thanks everyone!! It might be just easier to throw my Dewalt construction radio and just use that.It's battery powered and doesn't sound to bad....
 
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