capacitor info

[PlymouthScamp71 10+ year member]

ok I was talking to some friends and they said I jus had the wrong capacitor so I was looking around and people said I can't really over do it jus don't go over 10 farads so could I run my sytem with a 10 farad capacitor? and what if I took the wires from the normal car battery put em to the capacitor and did a 0 awg from the cap to the battery and grounded to the batterys ground. would this setup work? or is it just a dumb question. and I already ran a 0 awg big 3 with a 55 amp alternator..

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[SplAffair 10+ year member]

i thought we had you talked out of this capacitor bs awhile ago.... dont listen to your friends. save yourself some money sell that cap on craigslist and get a good agm battery

 

[LosIsATool 5,000+ posts]

You don't need any cap. Your friends are dumb. You have a very small alternator. Where do you think the power comes from? Amps turn current into voltage. You don't have any current to turn into anything.

 

[BigSix 10+ year member]

you should get new friends

 

[PlymouthScamp71 10+ year member]

i thought we had you talked out of this capacitor bs awhile ago.... dont listen to your friends. save yourself some money sell that cap on craigslist and get a good agm battery

you did have me talked out of it but today coming home from school I was in the school drive way and all of a suden my subs and radio everything shuts off and it even killed my lights. I limped my car home and the battery was completly dead alt still works but won't hold up. and if that wont work what if I jus got a 78 amp alt and ran both the 78 and the 55 to make 133 would this work? or do I need to jus strait up buy a new 120 amp alt?

 

[SplAffair 10+ year member]

you did have me talked out of it but today coming home from school I was in the school drive way and all of a suden my subs and radio everything shuts off and it even killed my lights. I limped my car home and the battery was completly dead alt still works but won't hold up. and if that wont work what if I jus got a 78 amp alt and ran both the 78 and the 55 to make 133 would this work? or do I need to jus strait up buy a new 120 amp alt?

get the biggest alt you can get. bigger the better.

also have you upgraded your battery?

 

[ampjunkielikeme 10+ year member]

sounds like you need a new battery.... not a capacitor..

 

[PlymouthScamp71 10+ year member]

get the biggest alt you can get. bigger the better.also have you upgraded your battery?

battery is not upgraded its not stock but the second own did put a new one in. and all I can afford is a 120 amp alt

and what if i got a 120 amp alt and instead of up grading that battery what if I did a secondary? and can it be jus any ol' battery??? or does it HAVE to be a audio one?

 

[SplAffair 10+ year member]

battery is not upgraded its not stock but the second own did put a new one in. and all I can afford is a 120 amp altand what if i got a 120 amp alt and instead of up grading that battery what if I did a secondary? and can it be jus any ol' battery??? or does it HAVE to be a audio one?

if your gonna do it you might as well do it right the first time. You need a good AGM battery (Optima Yellowtop, Kinetik, XSpower, etc. etc)

and alt upgrade would show an improvement. but i would start by upgrading the battery

 

[goingdef 10+ year member]

120 amps is better then where you are do that and a good ATM deep cycle set the gains correctly and you should be fine

 

[LosIsATool 5,000+ posts]

Avoid yellow tops if you can.

 

[PlymouthScamp71 10+ year member]

if your gonna do it you might as well do it right the first time. You need a good AGM battery (Optima Yellowtop, Kinetik, XSpower, etc. etc)and alt upgrade would show an improvement. but i would start by upgrading the battery

actually if possible could you post a couple links to some batterys that'll work for my set up?

 

[SplAffair 10+ year member]

actually if possible could you post a couple links to some batterys that'll work for my set up?

what gear are you currently running?

 

[PlymouthScamp71 10+ year member]

what gear are you currently running?

71' plymouth scamp with the little slant 6 225 cui and 2 12" rockford fosgate HX2 with 1000 watt r/t amp 2 6x9 sony explodes 2 4" schoche speakers kenwood radio and running 8 gauge from battery to subs and for some reason idk what guage it is but a lil smaller wire running power to the radio from the back. 750 cranking amps on the battery and 650 cold cranking oh and 4 12" cold catode lights.

does this help?

 

[Villeza1 10+ year member]

4 gauge power and ground wire from the battery to the amp.

Upgrade your stock batt to an AGM, I'd do a batt around 50-60 ah. Do the big 3, set the h/u and amp settings correctly and call it a day.

NO CAPS! You will not benefit at all. There's no point. (/Thread)