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profuse007

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capacitor 10k uF

application: pulse to steady

i found some capacitor on mouser.com but im not sure if its applicable and cheapest place to get it from.

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Mad Scientists

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What are you trying to do with the capacitor? That's not a size generally though of when talking about power conditioning..

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https://www.the12volt.com/relays/page5.asp#pts

Where do people buy capacitors for this set up?

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While it's reliable and pretty foolproof, using the big cap method shown, a cheaper alternative is to use a transistor and a much smaller cap to do the timing. Pretty simple to do, but just needs a little more work to connect up.

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www.digikey.com

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capacitor, what/where to purchase? -- posted image.

This does the same thing without needing the huge cap-

If you have really slow pulses coming in, just increase the cap or resistor to lengthen the hold time.

profuse007

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thanks for the diagram, but that wiring will be a load.

i guess ill order some cap from mouser.com.

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upgrade you big 3 and your alternator first. you might not ever need a cap if you take care of the essentials first.

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I don't think its an amp power cap he is looking for is it..

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Yeah, the cap's not for filtering, just for timing purposes.

If you have some experience installing alarms, it's not really that bad to wire up-

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