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[CesF2006 10+ year member]

to charge the cap just get a small light bulb with 2 wires coming off it, put one side on the live power from the battery, the other on the capacitor, hold them there till the light goes out, and its charged

 

[SethPhillips 5,000+ posts]

how do you have your cap wired...

i have seen way to many people wire there caps azz backwords!!!

 

[ThaDuke 10+ year member]

i don't seem to have a small light bulb.. only 120v.. but i can pick one of those up at a radioshack/circuit city? if so what am i looking for?

I hooked up my cap.. Battery -> Main Fuse under hood -> Positive of the Cap -> Out the negative into the smaller fuse holder that gets distributed to the amps.

 

[pinkfloydms 10+ year member]

Yeah radio shack or wal-mart should have em.

 

[ThaDuke 10+ year member]

Cool. Be back in a bit. Gonna go buy a 12v Bulb.

 

[blackbonnie 5,000+ posts]

well you can look under your hood, and if you know what a fuse looks like then you will be able to find it. if not, post up a pic on here (of under the hood), and we will try and find it for you. now for charging the cap, there should of been a resistor that came with it. all you do is hook up cap. dont put any power to the amp or anything yet, but hook it up. dont place your positive wire from the battery on it yet! now take your main positive wire, and place the resistor in between the positve wire, and postive connection on the cap. kind of like a bridge between them. what this does is gives some little voltage to your cap, so that when you hook it up there is no spark and it has charge to it.

 

[wolfman1966 10+ year member]

I know you already have the cap, but why not just leave it out and run things without it. Doesn't hurt anything, as I'm sure you know.

 

[connersdad19 10+ year member]

i don't seem to have a small light bulb.. only 120v.. but i can pick one of those up at a radioshack/circuit city? if so what am i looking for?
I hooked up my cap.. Battery -> Main Fuse under hood -> Positive of the Cap -> Out the negative into the smaller fuse holder that gets distributed to the amps.

this may sound dumb but is the cap grounded?

 

[ThaDuke 10+ year member]

yeah i know what u mean wolf.. and with all this headache in the end i might have too... but i don't want to cause, yeah i already bought it 2 years ago, and i just cleaned up all the wires and spaced the amps so it could fit in and look neat.. so if i take it out i'd have to put something in the middle lol..

Yeah black it says 100A

so theres the fuse and this is my corotted (sp?) battery and the cap terminals

No conner i didn't ground the amp. i don't see a terminal and i wouldn't know where to look if it's not where the other terminals are.

 

[blackbonnie 5,000+ posts]

alright i think i know what you did wrong. on the cap you have positive and negative. the negative goes to a ground. kind of like how your amp is grounded. so run a wire from the negative terminal to a ground in the trunk somewhere. and on the positve terminal, you will run one wire from your battery to the positive terminal, and another wire from the positve terminal to your distribution block. problem solved

 

[blackbonnie 5,000+ posts]

and let me know how it works

 

[ThaDuke 10+ year member]

what about the charging? should i charge or should i just hook it up?

 

[blackbonnie 5,000+ posts]

you should charge it first

 

[ThaDuke 10+ year member]

wow.... genius... works great. looks good.. just gotta get some more wire now.. kinda short.. ahhhhhhh thanks alot black u stuck through the whole way.. i'm gonna drive around and let it charge for a bit.. it's putting out 14-15 volts now.. thank you very much

 

[ThaDuke 10+ year member]

the cap lights just turned off before i got in the car but the system is still poundin....

nvm it's like a stand by when the music is low i guess the cap isn't in use or something... vol. 20 it stays on.