Are Capacitors worth the $$$

[tRiGgEr 5,000+ posts]

I wonder why Meade runs Fosgate's 25 farad caps???????

 

[cjjackson85 5,000+ posts]

What is the "BIG 3" ?? I know 2 of them.....HO alt., Upgraded batt. and what would be the 3rd.???Adam

You have over 700 posts and you ask this? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eek.gif.771b7a90cf45cabdc554ff1121c21c4a.gif

 

[ANeonRider 10+ year member]

I wonder why Meade runs Fosgate's 25 farad caps???????

Fosgate sponsorship?

 

[jujumantb 10+ year member]

I suggest you guys stop jumping on every bandwagon without any real scientific information. Capacitors can be useful in some situations, headlight dimming is not an ideal situation, but they can help a little.

A capacitor is added because batteries are slow to give up charge, relatively speaking, and are slow to recharge, where capacitors are nearly instantanious. Think of it like eliminating a speed bump in the road.

Your amp demands current, to really slam a huge instantanious explosion or bass drum... in that instant, it exceeds the current capability of your alternator, so it must draw the extra current from the battery... the battery is like Droopy Dog.. it's saying "Ooooohhh... kaaaayyyy... heeeeeerrreeeesss yooouuurrr currreeeennnntttt", and finally the amp gets the current. But there is a rise time involved. Granted it is tiny, but here's where the lightning fast capacitor can help out. It gets rid of that speed bump. While waiting for Droopy Dog, your capacitor discharged for the amp.

Capacitors are also good, in scenarios where you have fast kick-drum type bass. They don't help much at all on those long drone-tone extended bass tones like bass CD's, like sine waves, but that's fine... they don't hurt performance in those scenarios, either.

 

[tRiGgEr 5,000+ posts]

Fosgate sponsorship?

Negative. Bro has 4 RE MT's.

I mean he already has 2 HO alts and I think 2 batterys. Why the Caps. Got to be there for a reason //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[ANeonRider 10+ year member]

Read these:

http://aneonrider.com/Misc%20Files/showthread.php.htm

http://aneonrider.com/Misc%20Files/showthread2.php.htm

I'm not jumping on any bandwagon, my opinion is based off of facts.

I'd like to see any fact (i.e. measurements, etc) that says that 25F caps do anything.

 

[adam71 5,000+ posts]

You have over 700 posts and you ask this? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eek.gif.771b7a90cf45cabdc554ff1121c21c4a.gif

Heyyyyyy thanx for your help smart ***. I admit I should have done a search first but I didn't think of that at the time. But trigger helped me with a link anyway. But you decided to take the low road. Oh well to each his own. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/moon.gif.9d317aec3339ffe7fde0638df52c628a.gif

 

[ighettoboyi 10+ year member]

caps help a lil in the beginning. when i took out my 1F my dimming was even worse...