a couple questions

[bromodragonfly]

moved this from my original thread in new member introductions - hoping you guys can help me out:




Sounds good - it'll definitely be a few months before I even think about purchasing the LI. However xmas season is coming up and I've hinted about the V1 to my girlfriend, lol.

A couple questions... I definitely want to hardwire the V1 and run a CD. I was also thinking about installing a HID upgrade kit for my headlights - I don't want anything fancy or colored, but I do want better nighttime visibility - possibly running 4000k bulbs. Which may help if I ever choose to veil my lights.

Currently have a Garmin GPS. Was thinking down the line, after the LI is installed, I may want to buy a Cheetah mirror to take advantage of the speed-based muting, just in case I become forgetful in manually unmuting/muting the V1.

Also, somewhere down the line, I'd like to run a single front-facing vid cam. Like I said, the drivers in my hometown are terrible. In Jan of 2009 I really had to pull teeth with the insurance company to get them to reverse a 100% my fault verdict to 100% in my favour. Seemed like a common sense situation to me, but they were really pushing the no-witness factor, probably because I'm young and inherently stupid, and the other party was a taxi cab company, meaning flat rates with no increases.

So here's the question. I'm no electrician or car mechanic - will running V1 w/ CD, LI, GPS, vidcam and Cheetah mirror have any significant drawbacks to the alternator charging the battery? Do these devices pull a lot of power? Obviously they'd only be powered with the engine running.

Also, if I do indeed decide to buy a Cheetah mirror, I remember reading a thread regarding the need for a special type of wiring harness/adapter in order to use the mirror/V1/CD/mutebutton in synchrony. Would I be able to hardwire in this 'adapter' and have it unused just in case I ever wanted to add the mirror to my setup?

Thanks for your time guys

[bromodragonfly]

bump?

[Duke]

The manual states the max current draw of the V1 is 425mA and that is practically nothing. You'd have to add up all the other devices current draw to figure out whether your charging system will be overloaded or not. Can't help you with the rest, sorry.