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

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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.

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.

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

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

Edited November 3, 201212 yr by 16K

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

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