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Digital Stiffening Capacitors Installed

Good Job! Clean Install...

Curious about a few things: Why did you use 2 caps instead of one larger one for both amps?

Don't recall if you are using the OEM battery or went with a yellow-top but have you seen a large fluctuation in power yet?

:cool:
 
I would think because the 2 farad caps that I have seen are huge, and pretty expensive. ?Plus there are very few of them.

Have you seen any deals on caps larger than 1 farad?
 
zimmsAV said:
I would think because the 2 farad caps that I have seen are huge, and pretty expensive. ?Plus there are very few of them.
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A 5 farad cap from Alumapro is smaller in size than a single 1 Farad cap and runs about $325 or so....
 
zimmsAV said:
WOW! :eek:

I like those caps! ?I had never seen them before.
I guess I'll have to get the 50 farad when I put in my wall of 12's ?>:D
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I thought you would like... ;D

The thing to keep in mind with these though is that they are made with Russian material and the properties are different so they don't use the conventional methods of calculating the CAP size for any given system.

I am installing the 5 Farad one in the vette. should have all the pictures tomorrow. The rear of the vette was gutted and dynamat was layed... ;D
 
I'm thinking I have to add one of these to my system. Does anybody have any comments on the Stinger or Lightning caps? I've seen then on ebay and I'm thinking about buying one.

I also want to know if I can tie the cap ground into one of my amp grounds; to get away from grounding another wire. Would this make any difference?

Thanks,
--chazj
 
I've used both stinger and Lighting caps in the past. Both work fine. There's not a lot that can go wrong with caps.
IMO - I would go with the digital caps that have the voltage display.

Yes, that would be fine grounding to the same place you have your amp grounded to.
 
zimmsAV said:
IMO - I would go with the digital caps that have the voltage display.
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What's the benefit of the display, other than the coolness factor? Is it merely an installation diagnostic tool (at which point you could simply use a regular voltmeter) or does it serve a truly useful purpose later on down the road?

-- SS
 
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