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After you have discharged the capacitor due to heavy power draw, the capacitor will need to recharge. How does it recharge? Well, the capacitor sits in between your battery and your amplifier. Once the capacitor is discharged, it will attempt to charge itself by drawing power from your battery. Then, when the amp needs power, the capacitor will supply current from the battery as well as any "extra" current it has saved up. Once its discharged, the vicious cycle continues.
Most common car audio capacitors are rated at 1 farad, while I've seen some reach as high as 5, 10, 20, and higher. No matter how high the rating, a capacitor will still hamper performance. This is because capacitors cannot supply the needed current for any extended duration of time. When your amplifier needs current, it will suck the capacitor dry in less than one second, leaving your capacitor to use your battery to charge up again. Once the capacitor is charged, that extra current can then be transferred onto the amp.
See where I'm going now? If a capacitor can only hold a charge for less than one second, while drawing substantial amounts of current from your battery in an attempt to charge back up while delaying power the amp, then what is the point? There is none. Capacitors are known in the car audio community as a marketing ploy to make people think they need something, when in reality, they really don't. Take your money and invest it in a second battery. A capacitor these days runs between $50-$80. Add a few more dollars and you can get a second battery, which will supply your amplifier with much more power than a capacitor ever could, while not straining your electrical system.
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If your lights dim with every drum beat, or your CD skips a beat, your amplifier may be trying to use more energy than the electrical system can supply. Unfortunately, your car battery is not thinking about the needs of your amplifier. Power is being robbed from your audio system by less important things like: the engine, air conditioner and lights. This leaves your amplifier hungry for power on those big deep bass notes.
You need to know something about aduio capacitors.
A capacitor is a passive electronic component that stores energy in the form of an electrostatic field. In its simplest form,a film capacitor consists of two conducting plates separated by an insulating material called the dielectric. Capacitance is directly proportional to the surface areas of the plates, and is inversely proportional to the plates' separation. Audio capacitors store that necessary power your amplifier will need to punch those big bass notes while limiting clipping (see definition at lower right). They store power during intervals when it is not required, which is most of the time, and release it when momentary peak demand exceeds what is available from the car's power system. Along with an adequate basic power supply, a stiffening capacitor for your amp is the simplest way to be sure your system always gets every bit of current it needs. From the smallest 0.5 farad, to the 3 farad model by Legacy, there's a capacitor suitable for your installation. Mount them as close to the amplifier as possible, and choose at least .5 farad (500,000 microfarads) per 500 watts RMS of power output. You can use as many farads as you wish, but just the number indicated by the formula above is all that is necessary.
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Need Help With Car Audio System?
i have a 1987 lincoln mark 7
i have a 460 watt dual amp running my rear 6x9 speakers, i have the 2 6.5's in the front hooked up on a alpine 9856 head unit and i have 2 mtx 10s running on a alpine mrp-m450 amp.
just recently different lights have been dimming in the car for example the led light for the time or the temperature for the a/c and i've noticed that my subs aren't hitting as hard as they used to.
what do i need to do to fix this problem? i have already order a 6 farad capacitor and a optima yellow top battery...should i replace my battery with the optima and hook up the capacitor...or should i just leave the car battery that i have alone and hook the amps up to the optima and hook up the capacitor that way? and how would i hook up the amps to just the optima?
Replace the stock battery with the optima and use the cap.
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