Stupid capacitor

[Noob93 10+ year member]

i've had this 4 farad soundstream capacitor never used it cuz from what i know and what have heard theyre pretty useless, but i charged it up with the resistor and its up at 24volts, why the hell is it at 24 volts?????

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[gckless 5,000+ posts]

How did you charge it to 24V? Probably designed for a 24V system. Toss it.

 

[Noob93 10+ year member]

How did you charge it to 24V? Probably designed for a 24V system. Toss it.

i have no idea, the little resistor light went dim and then the voltage just shot up from 13.2 to 24.8 just like that...

 

[gckless 5,000+ posts]

i have no idea, the little resistor light went dim and then the voltage just shot up from 13.2 to 24.8 just like that...

What did you charge it off of? Your vehicle? Unless you have a 24V system in your vehicle and you don't know it, something is wrong internally with the cap. Don't use it.

More importantly, what's the voltage reading of your cables where you were attempting to hook this up? Test without the cap in place. Do you have multiple batteries?

 

[Noob93 10+ year member]

What did you charge it off of? Your vehicle? Unless you have a 24V system in your vehicle and you don't know it, something is wrong internally with the cap. Don't use it.
More importantly, what's the voltage reading of your cables where you were attempting to hook this up? Test without the cap in place. Do you have multiple batteries?

charged it off my cars battery... i tested my cars battery with a digital multi-meter and its resting at 13.1, no extra batteries or anything...

 

[gckless 5,000+ posts]

charged it off my cars battery... i tested my cars battery with a digital multi-meter and its resting at 13.1, no extra batteries or anything...

That's not possible to charge to 24V, unless something was somehow wrong internally. Again, toss it.

 

[Noob93 10+ year member]

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