To cap or not to cap...

[handman84 60]

What are the benefits of using a capacitor? Does anyone recommend using a cap in their set up? Why or why not?

[shizzzon 461]

[Impious 1,476]

Have you tried searching? This question comes up very often, and the answer is always the same.

[handman84 60]

Im searching now and posting was part of that search...BTW Impious, reflection is one of my favorite songs of all time!!!

[SPL_Man 20]

http://www.glasswolf.net/papers/index.html

see electrical section

[Impious 1,476]

http://www.glasswolf...pers/index.html

see electrical section

I sincerely dislike that website and it's owner for the simple fact he literally steals, direct copy-n-pastes, entire write-ups and information without any reference or credit to the source.

In fact several of the pages have his copyright at the bottom, when he copy-n-pasted the information from somewhere else.

[Quentin Jarrell 671]

Even a shit ton of caps don't work. Mark Fukuda experimented with them back in the early 90's. back then there weren't batteries like today so he had 6 huge custom battery cells custom built to reduce resistance versus multiole batteries. He then added something like 150 10 farad caps ( cant recall the exact number) and lost db's versus the cells alone.

[pmureika 31]

A cap is used on old ignition systems with points to keep the spark down. They are almost useless in modern day car audio.

[16K 159]

if your thinking about using a cap just get a 2nd battery lol...

Edited November 3, 2012 by 16K

[shizzzon 461]

the only cap i recommend doing in car audio is capping the charge voltage

[SS Teacher 177]

The guy from basic car audio found that many of the cheap caps he bought to test didn't even work.