What do Capacitor's do?

[D-Mac]

Just wondering the above...

Thanks!

[aaronng]

http://www.ozhonda.com/forum/showthread.php?t=61625
Nothing except have nice lights in your engine bay. If your old ground wires are worn out, then replace those with some 4-gauge wire from Jaycar for $8 per metre.

[ACTI0NMAN-1]

but what do Flux Capacitors do?

[m3ntAL_l2]

Nothing except have nice lights in your engine bay. If your old ground wires are worn out, then replace those with some 4-gauge wire from Jaycar for $8 per metre.

i think he meant "Capacitor" as in thorse battery things that u can run ur sub off.

[Fr3aKi3]

http://www.ozhonda.com/forum/showthread.php?t=61625
Nothing except have nice lights in your engine bay. If your old ground wires are worn out, then replace those with some 4-gauge wire from Jaycar for $8 per metre.

I'd rather go to some audio store and haggle for some aerpro 4awg. I got it for $5 a metre.


If you're talking about the car audio capacitors then basically they store a small amount of charge, when your amps needs some extra juice the capsends it through. With that being said i'd rather spend my money on upgrading the earths.

[D-Mac]

Hey yeah I was talking about the car audio ones...

So they're not really that useful then?

[czy_sol87]

^^yeh pretty much as said above it holds electricity so that ur amps never run out of power
sort of like a surge tank that holds fuel etc

i would say they are usefull, will put less strain on ur battery

[Fr3aKi3]

Some swear by them and other belive they're just a bandaid fix, i'm one of the latter.

As mentioned before, caps provide the extra boost in power needed if something like a voltage drop occurs. Why spend a few hundred bux (caps cost well over 300 for the better known ones) to "fix" a problem when you can "prevent" it from happening in the first place?

For the price of a quality cap i'd rather spend the money upgrading the earthing cables and get a better battery.

One thing that should be mentioned aswell, the cap needs to get power from somewhere and that somewhere is the battery.

[EKVTIR-T]

With that being said i'd rather spend my money on upgrading the earths.

What be be the ideal/best grounding set up for car audio?

[Fr3aKi3]

The more the merrier... lol

I replaced the single 8awg stock earth with a 0awg one, as well as have another run of 0awg which is then split into four 4awg runs via a distro block. It stopped my lights from dimming. I've currently got 2 amps in the car, a 4 channel (4x111wrms) and a monoblock (1x657wrms).

[IZY-10]

capacitors are used to smoothen out the power delivered to your amplifiers. they keep fully charged and when your stereo takes alot of power out of the amp, it smooths out the drop in voltage to make it consistantly 12-13v the farad rating is also going to dtermine your discharging phase.