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<blockquote data-quote="IDSkoT" data-source="post: 5432853" data-attributes="member: 584344">Since you are too lazy, or dumb (I&#039;ll let you decide) to use the search feature...Let me spell it out... AGAIN. Even though they&#039;ve said it previously in this thread.Capacitors are useless in a car audio environment. The idea behind them is grand, but the actual application is short of nothing. For instance, most capacitors are 1-5 farads. To put it in retrospect, a double-A Battery has 11,800 farads. Granted, it can only discharge it&#039;s total load in 1.3 hours. (IIRC) If you actually spell out the math, a 1-farad cap (assuming it&#039;s a true farad and not rounded up), will only give your system an extra 144 watts @ 12 volts, and I believe 164 @ 14 volts. (I did the math in a previous thread nearly similar to this one.) Now, that&#039;s over a millisecond. They are useful in certain applications... but for daily drivers, they&#039;re useless. If you&#039;re listening to music, and your electrical system can&#039;t support the amperage your amplifiers are trying to pull, and so much so that it uses a capacitor&#039;s charge, that&#039;s an instant of 144 watts... but after that, the capacitor is trying to recharge as your amplifier, which already needs more power, is trying to run at the same time. So, it just adds stress on your circuit.And a lot of people on this forums hear from the grapevine that caps are worthless and will enter any thread that mentions a cap and flame the OP for being an idiot or something of the sort. Like I said, they&#039;re useful in burps... but that&#039;s about it.They were originally designed for comps... but, they&#039;re a sham. And the reason why your local audio shop says that they&#039;re good is because they were trained to. They probably don&#039;t know better-- nor do they probably know the simple formula to find about how many true-RMS an amp produces (voltage of car * amps it pulls based on the fuses * .8 (Or replace with the efficiency of the amp in decimal). They&#039;re there for their job. They probably aren&#039;t real enthusiasts like a few on this forum are. (I say a few &#039;cause most of you out there come to us and asks what&#039;s good, go out, buy it, love it, then flame anyone who has a different opinion.)Any other questions?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="IDSkoT, post: 5432853, member: 584344"] Since you are too lazy, or dumb (I'll let you decide) to use the search feature... Let me spell it out... AGAIN. Even though they've said it previously in this thread. Capacitors are useless in a car audio environment. The idea behind them is grand, but the actual application is short of nothing. For instance, most capacitors are 1-5 farads. To put it in retrospect, a double-A Battery has 11,800 farads. Granted, it can only discharge it's total load in 1.3 hours. (IIRC) If you actually spell out the math, a 1-farad cap (assuming it's a true farad and not rounded up), will only give your system an extra 144 watts @ 12 volts, and I believe 164 @ 14 volts. (I did the math in a previous thread nearly similar to this one.) Now, that's over a millisecond. They are useful in certain applications... but for daily drivers, they're useless. If you're listening to music, and your electrical system can't support the amperage your amplifiers are trying to pull, and so much so that it uses a capacitor's charge, that's an instant of 144 watts... but after that, the capacitor is trying to recharge as your amplifier, which already needs more power, is trying to run at the same time. So, it just adds stress on your circuit. And a lot of people on this forums hear from the grapevine that caps are worthless and will enter any thread that mentions a cap and flame the OP for being an idiot or something of the sort. Like I said, they're useful in burps... but that's about it. They were originally designed for comps... but, they're a sham. And the reason why your local audio shop says that they're good is because they were trained to. They probably don't know better-- nor do they probably know the simple formula to find about how many true-RMS an amp produces (voltage of car * amps it pulls based on the fuses * .8 (Or replace with the efficiency of the amp in decimal). They're there for their job. They probably aren't real enthusiasts like a few on this forum are. (I say a few 'cause most of you out there come to us and asks what's good, go out, buy it, love it, then flame anyone who has a different opinion.) Any other questions? [/QUOTE]

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