Capacitor Fried ?????

[revrider1 5,000+ posts]

I just recently had a problem with my car. My alternator and battery fried on me. Now here is the big problem, after I replaced both I redid all my wiring from the battery to the cap and then to the amp. When I came to turn the stereo on the cap is cutting of (voltage meter goes blank) and of course the amp is not working . I was wondering is it possible to fry your cap considering I did it to both the battery and alternator:crap: . I was going to run the power directly to the amp and see if the problem is the cap . I have never had this happen to me before since I usually replace the battery and alternator before anything I just had not got around to it yet (its my work car and I work to **** much that I dont have much time for anything ). Any help would be appreciated at least untill I have time to try and run the power direct to the amp //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/help.gif.cee8f684da1ba626487a8bc51152e1ec.gif .

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[iceteebone 5,000+ posts]

just run the power direct to the amp and pitch the cap

 

[creater 10+ year member]

iceteebone's got a heck of an idea there

 

[TeenWolf 10+ year member]

Yeah, the cap probably isn't serving any purpose.

 

[Goldenknob 10+ year member]

caps work... at least it helped my dimming... try bypassing it to see if it's bad.. can't hurt to check.

 

[revrider1 5,000+ posts]

Well I tried to run the power direct to the amp and it does play very distorted and the power light on the amp flickers off and on:furious: . I thought may be the speaker wires might have been touching each other inside the box, but that was not the case either. I even tried another pair of subs I had sitting in my room and still the same. To me it seems like a short somewhere as if the amp is not getting enough power. Sometime this week I am probably just going to rip all the wiring out and start over again. It is just weird has this just began when the battery and alternator fried.

 

[slicks5150 10+ year member]

Well I tried to run the power direct to the amp and it does play very distorted and the power light on the amp flickers off and on:furious: . I thought may be the speaker wires might have been touching each other inside the box, but that was not the case either. I even tried another pair of subs I had sitting in my room and still the same. To me it seems like a short somewhere as if the amp is not getting enough power. Sometime this week I am probably just going to rip all the wiring out and start over again. It is just weird has this just began when the battery and alternator fried.

thats your best bet and pretty much your only option.