car audio caps and batteries?
Hey. Hows it going every body. I need help with my car system. I have a 4channel soundstorm 1200 watt amp hooked up to my 4 door speakers. And now i have a 12 in sub which i am going to hook up to a 800 watt powerbass amp. Im going to have a total of 2000 watts. I was thinking of getting a capiator so i dont drop the cars voltage.What farad should i get. I cant put a battery in it cause my dads gonna freak out. Also im not gonna be blasted my subs all the time, its just gonna be sometimes. Please help me
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No sir... your cars battery has wayyy more power than that theres not even a point to put a capacitor on there
theres a couple Ground rules for caps
#1 ONLY buy namebrand, most caps just look fancy and honestly do nothing!
#2 You want to look for as low an ESR as you can find...
http://www.rockfordfosgate.com/products/...
#3 Place it as close to your amplifier input as possible, you want to lose as little power in the wire as possible
PEOPLE WHO TELL YOU JUST TO PUT A CAP ON IT KNOW NOTHING!
Also realize a capacitor is only a storage device... how does it take the strain off the battery when every time it hits, it needs to recharge it takes as much power as it uses but the aspect is its another resovoir in case the batter doesnt have the power to hit it will give it the nessecasry power from its resovior
a cap really wouldn't help you much if at all. a cap will drop your voltage even more. If the light dimming is a real problem for you, then you should consider an alternator upgrade, and the "Big 3" upgrade. which is upgrading the wires that run between your battery and alternator.
the reason I say a cap will drop your voltage even more, is because it will release the electricity it has stored up to help stiffen the voltage too quickly to be of any help. then it will need to charge which will add to the load on the alternator. and a second battery wouldn't help yu at all unless you plan on using it to run your system while the car is off in order to save the battery that needs to start the car.