Please help/

[97civicsedan 10+ year member]

alright so i just bought a new system two days ago and im already running into problems. I have a 2ohm alpine type r 15" running of an SPL 3000w monoblock at 1ohm with a kinetik capacitor which is supposed to be like 100 fared. ok so the first day i hooked it all up right n it was bumping so ****ing hard at 1/4 level setting on the amp and the second day it as thumpin hard too, but today i noticed some of the wires were showing so i unhooked the cap and the amp then hooked them back up w/o wires showing, well i accidentally touched the pos and neg wire hooked up to the cap so it made sparks n ****, so now when i turn my system on the sub doesnt hit as hard on 1/2 level as it did at 1/4. im thinkin when it sparks it might have discharged the cap but i cannot tell if its charged n i dont know how to charge it because its not like other caps. any help would be great

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[mlstrass 5,000+ posts]

Bypass the cap and see how it sounds, and then ditch the cap as you don't need it...

 

[crow 10+ year member]

x2

Take the cap out and see if it helps. Make sure you disconnect the ground on the battery when you change wiring around to keep things safe.

 

[Thomas Nicolas 10+ year member]

x2disconnect the ground on the battery .

u mean negitive right...?

 

[97civicsedan 10+ year member]

a negative wire is a ground wire. n btw i tryed the capacitor bypass and it makes no difference??

 

[Doingstuffwell 10+ year member]

then get the $$ back for the cap

 

[97civicsedan 10+ year member]

ha yea 4 sure