It's hot in Houston and car batteries don't like that. Long stays in the garage and the battery runs down from the small drains. I therefore have a cutoff switch on my battery compartment door. I have an Alpine head unit that therefore loses its secondary power and 'forgets' its settings. I'm tired of having to reconfigure it so I thought I should just wire in a 12v backup just for it.
I haven't done it yet, but it seems straightforward enough. If I put a diode in the harness that feeds the radio with car 12v (on the always hot line), then I should be able to add my 12v backup on the radio side of that diode and be good to go, right? The diode will stop the new backup battery from backfeeding other drains like the door locks, yet give the radio the minor juice it needs to keep the memory alive. In a perfect world the battery backup would actually be a rechargeable setup so that when the main battery is turned on it would charge my backup.........
Sound right? Anyone done this?