Tired of this discussion...

[LBX2G 10+ year member]

weellll they serve a perpose. I remember CA&E doing and article on them. THey help a lil bit but not enough big enough for a must have. I mean in spl installs they have there places.

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

http://www.carsound.com/UBB/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=022965;p=11 lol read this. the woofer he is talking about exists too lol

 

[iceteebone 5,000+ posts]

i was reading that they become useful when you have a blinking problem. i guess that's when you have an HO alt and when your amp instantly draws current the alt. takes a second to deliver it and you get a blink in your lights and the cap is suppose to help stop that blinking because it stores up energy and it disperses it instantly

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

wrong in that situation a cap slows down your blinking lights

 

[iceteebone 5,000+ posts]

wrong in that situation a cap slows down your blinking lights

how? if a cap is designed to store up energy and realese it instantly then why would it make it worse??

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

its called resistance you can read about it in alot of forums i can go on and type like 3 pages but just so you know the same guy laffin at caps produced now is also the same guy that used the first ones like 16 yrs ago

 

[reed8857 10+ year member]

here we go.....

 

[ANeonRider 10+ year member]

Just do a search on here about caps or capacitors also, we just had a discussion about them last week.

 

[reed8857 10+ year member]

From what I have read their will continue to be "cap threads" for enternity (SP) lol

 

[ANeonRider 10+ year member]

here it is:

http://www.caraudio.com/vb/showthread.php?t=76587&highlight=capacitor

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

Yawn

LOL

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

http://www.carsound.com/UBB/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=022965;p=11 lol read this. the woofer he is talking about exists too lol

The best line on that page.

and speaking of squashing items filled with air i'll show you what it can do to your head................RC

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

richard has a certain way of explaining things...some people say he is full of sh!t but the things he applies are laws, unlike the trining i did as a rep. especially high end cables lol i personally think certain brands are total garbage and cost 5 times what they should for no other logical reason than they say so (the manufactures) and the people that actually believe everything they are told. about the only diff between these wire companies is their distubution blocks and battery posts are more solid (you can torque on them a bit) but other than that they offer little more than a name.....

 

[solox 10+ year member]

heres a cap test by richard clark that i got off of here a while ago. so i decided to put it up here.

http://pages.charleshays.net/~nelsonky/Captest.pdf best to right-click saves as.

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

lol funny thing i came up with roughly the same as he did all i had was test tones and a voltmeter i saved hi point on both and average was .1 volts higher without a cap. strange but true...to bad my friend used it to try and measure amprage 129 dollar hunk of smoke and burnt inards it became and since then i havent found 1 like it =(