I have a tsunami 5 farad capacitor hook to a kicker amp 1500x1 and 2 kicker L5's. the problem is the capacitor will make the amp cut on and off when the bass hits hard. I bypassed the capaitor and everything works fine. that is how i know it is the problem. what could it be?

 

get rid of the cap. period. end of story.

 

Either the cap is defective or the internal connections (where you screw the wires into the cap) are loose from the body of the cap.

If you can wiggle the pos. or neg. or both blocks that you connected your power and ground to, that might be it.

 

normally those shitty caps are just that. throw it away.

 

Just get a better battery.. and toss the cap

 

To actually fix your problem, you need to wire it parallel. Battery to POS side, then a wire from the POS of the cap to the amp. And of course ground off the NEG side of the cap to the chassis of the car.

 

What?

 

Sounds like he has it wired so the ground goes to the amp. Bass hits, power shuts off because the cap no longer has power. He said if he takes out the cap it runs fine, so the amp is fine. So its either his wiring or the cap, and I'm pretty sure, its the wiring. Because the amp wouldn't shut off if the cap was defective because it would still get power from the battery.

 

However with the power line from the battery going through the cap first, if it were a loose connection inside the cap, this would also cause it.

I would ditch the cap regardless.

 

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are you running a 0.5 farad or a 5 farad cap, and I wouldn't ditch the cap, systems destroy cobalt battery/alternator... :P

 

Screw the alternator. Who needs that anyways?

 

caps are good for one bass note. then they turn into big resistors.

get a bigger alternator. the end.

 

what would make you say that, I have a 1 farad stinger and it works amazing, no flashing lights etc... and the bass power was increased

 

i was running a 5.0 cap

to let you know it wasnt the wiring. i had a stringer 1.0 cap laying around and decided to try it. turns out i works with no problems. i think it is just a bad cap because i return it twice and got new a new one each time.

 

The problem was probably to do with the size of the cap... for what you are running 1.0 is definitely plenty. 5.0 would probably require at least 5000W++... but hopefully all works now.

 

why would u use a a 5-farad cap for a 1500 watt amp? 1farad-1000watts

 

i have a tunami cap and i had problems with it ..i found them to be crap so i got a stinger 10 farad all my problems were solved

 

Get a batcap. This thing is the ****!

http://www.batcap.net/

 

good grief, is it the size of a wastepaper basket?

 

i wanted the overkilll LOL

 

damn all kinds of fucked info on here...

 

tsunami caps are just crap i talked to my rep and even he said they get a lot of returns on them because lots of bass messes up the insides or something he told me ........even he is using a stinger 5 farad

 

look at the prices. a 10f cap for the same price as a good fosgate or stinger 1f? they are built like **** really. One guy at the shop is using a lanzar specifically as a d block since he was mounting his amp on the roof late at night and wanted to finish up. I told him to just grab a regular 1f but nope. Now hes having issues since its so shitty (he knows/knew from the beginning and its temp until he orders the fosgate one)