Bought a inexpensive capacitor off eBay, and installed it last night. I think this is the best place to put your capacitor if you just want to hide it, and keep more room in your trunk. The amp is bolted onto the right seat looking into the trunk, and the subwoofer moves freely. I still have my factory radio, and used a wiring harness to tap into the rear speakers and it works great.





Took pix with cell phone so quality is'nt too good, but you get the idea

Just posting this to share for under $200 I have a decent system that kicks great and theres still plenty of room in my trunk.

Oh and have a good weekend!

 

I thought the capacitor is supposed to go between the battery and the amp. It doesn't look to me like you have it hooked up correctly, unless you made a mistake in your diagram.

 

looksl ike he added a cap to his battery

LMAO! Least his battery will hit those bass notes better now....



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*******

 

I know it's not a Rockford Fosgate, but look at this manual. http://www.rockfordfosgate.com/scrip...ted=1163011128

 

If you think about what a capacitor is and its purpose to just devote to the amp is like being a selfish to all of your other electronics in the car. Hooking it up straight to the battery helps everything including the amp, but you can still do it your way : the location of the capacitor still rocks though.

 

Whatever you say man, to each is own.

 

Are you calling me a *******? Buddy those Bass notes still hit, and btw have you ever noticed sitting in your car at a stop sign or whereever you want and you roll down your windows the lights dims alittle, or even the stock amp that powers your stock subwoofer, or anything else you can think of??? Well the capacitor resolves this issue, and I'm pretty happy with it. You think you know everything because the Rockfosgate manual told you how to install it and you assume because one guy did it that way its the only way....well its not I showed its not, and you can think whatever you want just dont be an UNEDUCATED conformed bastard that talks ****. Have a nice day btw

 

what about when u turn the rear defrost on, do the lights still dim? i hate that sooooo much.

 

I have not tried yet, but I will say that with the stock radio volume blasting full volume, and moving the windows switch up and down I do not see the "dimming" like I did before when testing the install out. I'll try it tonight though and let you know.

bump

 

Never did I say it was a wrong way. But, you had different intentions in mind. MOST people who add a capacitor to there car do it for audio reasons and add it in-line to the amplifier to supply that little extra power to the subs when needed. I've never seen someone add it to there car for when the entire car needs reasons, I would think you would need more than a 1 farad capacitor for that, maybe even a medium sized Kinetic battery/capacitor. Either way, you're happy with your install and that's what you wanted so to you.

 

Thanks but I was directing the comment towards Whitefiver, your absoluety correct though

 

hey buddy all u got done now is the battery charges up the cap then the power for the car comes from the battery then the cap supply the battery again its may still work good but its done wrong but whatever floats ur boat

 

Looks ok to me, good place to mount the cap too.

 

From what you put in your picture it seems like you hooked it up right
The only thing is for a cap to work it is supposed to be as close to the amp as possible, you loose power the more distance you have to travel after the cap.
It would be more efficient closer to the amp, that being said if you like the way it looks and is hooked up then hey more power to you, in the end its your car and as long as it works then there shouldn't be any problems

 

Lol funny thing that's were I have my cap so does it work better this way the way you have it set up up I have it battery then cap from cap to amp you have it cap then battery from battery to amp right how's that working out cause my lights do dim but I have 1400 watt subs and a 1000 watt amp

 

i had that same exact capacitor... worthless piece of crap, imo couldnt handle my set up. So i upgraded to a Kinetik PowerCell..

 

I have a 3 farad cap lol got for free so im not complaining lol I seen those caps there 1farad aren't they

 

mine was 3 farad, if i remember correctly..i cant remember,its been a while.

but yeah, 1farad caps are worthless and a waste of money.

 

well it is hooked up wrong

 

Okay, buddy. Let's go over a couple things.
Yeah, I called you a *******. Premature? Possibly.
However, this post didn't help your case at all. Let's start from the top.
Do my lights ever dim when I'm sitting at a stoplight and I roll down the windows? Nope.
Do they dim when I crank my stereo? Nope.
Do they dim any other time? Yeah, when I let my clutch out.

Does the capacitor resolve an issue? HELL NO! A capacitor is nothing more than a band-aid, and if you actually look at the numbers, they actually do more harm than good over time. If I thought you cared, I'd post those up here.

As for my competence, knowledge and general education...guess what. I've never read a Rockford Fosgate manual in my life. Yeah, at first I didn't realise that you were using it to buffer the battery. It looked like it tied into the amplifier power cable. My mistake. Now that I realise that it's hooked up to the battery itself, it makes a little more sense. However, that doesn't mean I'm uneducated. I probably know more about cars than you, in general.

If you wanted to truly solve the problem, then you should upgrade your battery, and your wiring.

 

whitefever is correct.

do it the right way.

 

Lol!

 

I should put one in the engine bay connected in line with the alternator, maybe someone else would blow a gasket too?

 

so then whats the proper way to hook the cap cause i have it how every one else has it lol

 

dump the cap upgrade ur bat. and do the "Big 3" problem solved

bingo!

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bat --> cap --> amp