So you're going to go from a FI BL ported to a FI SP4 sealed? Do you want to be even quieter?
Not true. Where do you people get this stuff? Look over voltage in a parallel circuit again and find out why you're wrong please.
This is another situation that application and wire can play a huge roll over what a text book will say. I have seen several installs where a cap has lowered the voltage a very small amount. In most cases only by around .01-.1 and that was on the maximum end of what I saw. Which in this case is not going to alter the ability of the amplifier drastically. And for the record it is not always the cap that causes the drop. There are several reasons that the voltage lass can be derived from.
If the amplifier is wired in parallel, and assuming you tested with the amplifier not at full tilt, you could not have noticed any change at all. That would have to be your meter. The capacitor has MUCH less esr than a single battery and can charge up to the vehicle's voltage thus no longer drawing current. A battery cannot. Unless you want to dispute that, let's see how much voltage you're dropping when you add a battery.
I have 3 batteries 25' down line from my front battery and another 4' from the front battery to the alt. Alt puts out 14.9, front battery is 14.8, back batteries are 14.7. I can nearly guarantee you each of those voltage drops are merely focal points on the connections and have nothing to do with the batteries themselves. The constant complete discharge/recharge of the cap would knock another .1 in addition to the connection loss due to heat. In transfer, energy is always lost to heat. In stasis, not so much.
so true here
So wait, your batteries drop voltage due to the connection, but a capacitor loses due to heat? Did I read that correctly? That must be why there are massive heatsinks on capacitors. Thanks I always wondered.
i would say when addidng a cap your adding ressistance thats why some people exp less voltage drop.
It's wired in parallel with the amplifier. This means that you're not adding resistance. The only way to add resistance is in series.
You don't know why you're wrong. That's why you can't explain it. I've read that a million times and it does not support what you said. Just to explain it before anyone else argues. ESR is how much resistance does this cap have in a series circuit? The way it is explained in this article as well as anywhere else you'll find it is "suppose you have a perfect capacitor with no losses and wired a resistor in series with it." Of course wiring that circuit in parallel would with another circuit would not drop the voltage etc of the other circuit. It would only drop the voltage of anything in series with this circuit.
