Power Capacitor

[dark_is200]

Going to be connecting my ICE soon (yes still haven't done anything!) and was wondering about the power cap. From my engineering days it is a bad thing to connect the cap straight to the Battery so what would you recommend? I am currently thinking about a 47 ohm (10W) resistor in series to charge the cap the first time and then connect straight to the 12V once its charged. Sound sensible??

[Mike246]

Where is this capacitor supposed to be wired to, what value is it and what is it supposed to do?

[dark_is200]

The capacitor I'm using is 2F and will be wired near to the amps in the boot, it's used to stiffen the 12V supply for ICE installs that require a large amount of current.

I will be running two AudioBahn Subs (AWT12X - 1ohm, 2KW RMS power handling), each sub will be driven by an AudioBahn A18001DQ amp (1800W x 1 @ 1ohm).

I will probably need a second Battery but have not got round to this yet, anyone fitted a second Battery, if so how did you do it and has it caused any problems so far?

[adeyb]

spend your money on a nice optima yellow top Battery instead, money better spent