i see. thanks for the good suggestions. last thing i do know there is a draw draining my battery. only thing is, would the alarm system be the cause? just wondering because b4 i put in my sound system and changed the alternator the first time i noticed my lights were dimming on the cluster. not bad but noticeable. so after a while got a new alternator again when it went bad. still i notice the dimming lol. i did the light test but how accurate would that be if i pulled out the fuses? also would a capacitor for the sound system help out?