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Capacitors, their NOT what some people claim..
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<blockquote data-quote="keep_hope_alive" data-source="post: 8283133" data-attributes="member: 576029"><p>your main mistake is assuming that car audio capacitors are limited to 1 Farad. Also, it is clear that capacitors have their place in the electrical system considering they are a vital part of the topology of an amplifier's power supply. The smoothing effects of capacitors is pretty basic and simply a function of size and time. I have installed 500 Farad banks and seen good success on stock electrical systems with 2kW-4kW sub stages. course, not everyone is willing to spend $300-$500 for a 500F ultracap bank.</p><p></p><p>while capacitors need to be recharged, doing so in between musical peaks is easy for the electrical system to do.</p><p></p><p>the automotive industry has moved to ultracapacitor banks in cars with regenerative braking because caps can charge faster and discharge faster than batteries and do it for millions of cycles without fail. batteries are slow, lumbering blocks when compared to capacitors. chemical reactions are slower than electric fields.</p><p></p><p>capacitors are not as sensitive to temperature as batteries are. whether heat or cold, a capacitor bank will outperform a battery in longevity.</p><p></p><p>in the end, it's simply a matter of energy over time. your argument would be better spent discussing the amount of Joules a capacitor can discharge given it's size and the potential change.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.maxwell.com/ultracapacitors/" target="_blank">Maxwell Technologies Ultracapacitors</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="keep_hope_alive, post: 8283133, member: 576029"] your main mistake is assuming that car audio capacitors are limited to 1 Farad. Also, it is clear that capacitors have their place in the electrical system considering they are a vital part of the topology of an amplifier's power supply. The smoothing effects of capacitors is pretty basic and simply a function of size and time. I have installed 500 Farad banks and seen good success on stock electrical systems with 2kW-4kW sub stages. course, not everyone is willing to spend $300-$500 for a 500F ultracap bank. while capacitors need to be recharged, doing so in between musical peaks is easy for the electrical system to do. the automotive industry has moved to ultracapacitor banks in cars with regenerative braking because caps can charge faster and discharge faster than batteries and do it for millions of cycles without fail. batteries are slow, lumbering blocks when compared to capacitors. chemical reactions are slower than electric fields. capacitors are not as sensitive to temperature as batteries are. whether heat or cold, a capacitor bank will outperform a battery in longevity. in the end, it's simply a matter of energy over time. your argument would be better spent discussing the amount of Joules a capacitor can discharge given it's size and the potential change. [URL="http://www.maxwell.com/ultracapacitors/"]Maxwell Technologies Ultracapacitors[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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