Capacitors

[BCONNELLY 10+ year member]

Thought I needed a capacitor for years, finally got one, but then started reading low voltage. Found out the ground wire was loose.

After fixing the problem I turned my system on, but the cap's voltage was low. I know your supposed to charge, and uncharge these things, before and after installations, but I'm not sure exactly what to do.

Caps sortta scare me with all the electricity stored in them.

I've recently been on a kick of blowing-up everything I hook-up.

An Eclipse 8104 sub, an Eclipse 9102DVC Titanium sub, and bought a Cadence 7000+HC(online), which never worked to begin with.

It's not that I've been installing my sh-t wrong, I've just had a problem with my volume knob, I keep turning it up too much!!!

Well, anyhow finally got a nice set-up with my 2 perfect 12" infinitys and Diamond D5.

So, anyhow, I by-passed my capacitor, due to my streak of bad luck, I figured I blow my sh-t up if I keept messing with it.

I'll have to say, I don't know if it really made much difference.

Why use a cap?

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[Raven 10+ year member]

*sigh...*

A cap is used to improve bass response, filling in the gap between the time you have a voltage drop and when the alternator kicks in to compensate. That's ALL it was designed to do. It is designed to work with an already adequate charging system.

Instead, hit the big 3, and run larger wire. If your equipment is kicking off, it could be drawing too much power. You're not one of those people who thinks running 6 or 8 guage from the battery to the back is enough for a 600 watt amp, are you?

 

[BCONNELLY 10+ year member]

I used 4 guage,

and yes that is my next step, to use 4 guage for the alternator and battery.

Thankx for the feed back.

 

[BCONNELLY 10+ year member]

iceteebone?

 

[iceteebone 5,000+ posts]

iceteebone?

you summoned? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/typing.gif.fd7c44a94b6ea7a328969e3ae0e010f7.gif

i think raven summed it up pretty well.

 

[Raven 10+ year member]

Does summing it up nicely include the "Oh here we go again" sigh or not? =p The similar threads feature works incredibly well on this subject.

 

[bhsswrstlr 10+ year member]

cap //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/thumbsdown.gif.d22f25895e9b40f2300c953691dacfa2.gif

big three/massive alternator //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/thumbsupwink.gif.129404938effda6ad9cca39e7f4b58a3.gif