Car Audio Capacitors Are a Waste of Money

After you accept absolved the capacitor due to abundant ability draw, the capacitor will allegation to recharge. How does it recharge? Well, the capacitor sits in amid your array and your amplifier. Once the capacitor is discharged, it will attack to allegation itself by cartoon ability from your battery. Then, if the amp needs power, the capacitor will accumulation accepted from the array as able-bodied as any "extra" accepted it has adored up. Once its discharged, the abandoned aeon continues.
Most accepted car audio capacitors are rated at 1 farad, while I've apparent some ability as top as 5, 10, 20, and higher. No amount how top the rating, a capacitor will still bassinet performance. This is because capacitors cannot accumulation the bare accepted for any continued continuance of time. If your amplifier needs current, it will blot the capacitor dry in beneath than one second, abrogation your capacitor to use your array to allegation up again. Once the capacitor is charged, that added accepted can again be transferred assimilate the amp.
See area I'm traveling now? If a capacitor can alone authority a allegation for beneath than one second, while cartoon abundant amounts of accepted from your array in an attack to allegation aback up while dabbling ability the amp, again what is the point? There is none. Capacitors are accepted in the car audio association as a business artifice to accomplish humans anticipate they allegation something, if in reality, they absolutely don't. Take your money and advance it in a additional battery. A capacitor these canicule runs amid $50-$80. Add a few added dollars and you can get a additional battery, which will accumulation your amplifier with abundant added ability than a capacitor anytime could, while not abrupt your electrical system.