1.2 Farad Capacitor.. Need Help!

**durwood** · 11-05-2006, 11:21 PM

Originally Posted by Shadow

It's still stupid. A 10 or 15 farad cap would cost easily two times what a good solid battery would cost with a fraction of the performance.

I hope you are talking about the main car battery...and not adding a second battery. A second battery will only cause further problems.

It's a Power acoustik amp...it won;t draw that much power. Just use good quality wire and make sure its grounded well and all should be fine.

**GoHybrid** · 11-05-2006, 11:31 PM

i hate to say it but... YAWN.

**Yacob** · 11-06-2006, 06:26 AM

Yea. Today when I get back from work i am upgrading a couple of my wires. I'll see where that takes me. Lucky I didn't tear apart my cap box and still have the recipt so if its not needed. I'll get my money back.

And yes I am running a stock battery. No worries though. Soon to be upgraded with a Yellow Top one. Those are around $125-$150 right?

**blkwrx** · 11-06-2006, 07:30 AM

Yellowtop are best for if you run your system with the car off for long periods of time. If you don't I would get a redtop (or equiv).

**RedGTiVR6** · 11-06-2006, 07:49 AM

yellow tops are around 200, red tops around 150.

If you use the car every day or at least every other day, go with a red top, else stick with a yellow top if the car sits for more than 2 days without being driven.

**Shadow** · 11-06-2006, 11:37 AM

You could also get an Exide Orbital for about the same price. It's a better battery for less because they don't have the rep.

**RedGTiVR6** · 11-06-2006, 11:50 AM

can you please qualify that?

**Shadow** · 11-06-2006, 12:25 PM

The orbitals retail for about $135 for a battery similar into construction to a red top with performance greater than either the yellow top or red top. It's meant for use as a primary battery but can be cycled, just not marine style cycling. They've been used in most NASCARs for years now. If that's not puttin up with some hell, I don't know what is.

Exide doesn't have the reputation that Optima does because they don't market too much to the audio crowd and mainly do OEM stuff but they do have quite a following with racing.

**RedGTiVR6** · 11-06-2006, 02:04 PM

Thanks for qualifying it all.

I've known about Exide for a long time. I just can't stand it when people say "x is better than y" but never can give any detail or any information to substantiate it.