When pumping music (bass) your amplifier is actually saying to your alternator: spin harder, need more while most of the time it doesnt. The time that it wants the alternator to spin faster is to short to actually let the alternator spin up or spin faster, therefore to prevent the continous questioning to the alternator for brief periods of more power, you can add a cap which will give a small bit of stored power to the amp so it has enough however at the end the power comes from your alternator to the capacitator with the difference that the cap will draw it slowly at the same rate rather instead of peaking all the time.
I dunno a lot of caps, this is what I think that its function is... so dont shoot you me, also heart in general caps are better avoided and only when you have REAL big pro install you might need one to give you the real thump
Your battery doesn't power your system, the alternator does. when your alternator cannot handle the current that the amplifier needs, it gets the reserve power from the battery. A cap is a tiny tiny battery (220,000 1 farad caps=1 deep cycle battery, storage wise). Where do you think the cap recharges from? The battery? Hell no. It gets it from the alternator. Read up on electrical systems and maybe one day you will understand.
too bad i work at a car audio shop and have had no problems installing for the last two years so before you start critisizing get your **** straight and quit talking out of your ass. I know what the **** to do so what.
Dreamworkz, where do you think the system gets power from? It sure as hell isn't the battery. It's this thing in your car called an alternator. Like I said, read up, you might learn a whole lot.
UHH,no the alternator charges your battery that runs your system. So what your saying is that u dont need a battery. How about u think about what your gonna say before you type.
What you need to do is read up on electrical system. A cap gets it power from the alternator. If you stereo ran off your battery your battery would be dead after 15 mins. What snova031 is sayin is totally correct.
A cap discharges in milliseconds...a battery does not recharge itself...thats why it will die without an alternator to charge it...
A battery is just reserve power. The alternator actually powers your system while the car is running, unless it is at max tilt, that's when the batteries reserve power kicks in.
