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Forum Name: Car Audio
Forum Discription: Car Stereos, Amplifiers, Crossovers, Processors, Speakers, Subwoofers, etc.
URL: https://www.the12volt.com/installbay/forum_posts.asp?tid=113723
Printed Date: July 07, 2025 at 11:24 AM


Topic: power cap

Posted By: plummo_vtec
Subject: power cap
Date Posted: May 10, 2009 at 8:09 AM

I have been given conflicting information about these i have been told that you need a seperate cap for every amp so please clarify or bust this my current setup are two battries one normal hood battery and a stinger in the back connected pos pos, neg neg then one cap conecting two amps 2 12" subs 6x9s and front component speakers

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Posted By: plummo_vtec
Date Posted: May 10, 2009 at 8:09 AM
oh yeah these are all inside a 1999 honda civic coupe em1

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you can turbo a vtec but you cant vtec a turbo




Posted By: haemphyst
Date Posted: May 10, 2009 at 8:49 AM
First of all you should NEVER mix battery types. This is your first issue. One of those batteries WILL die prematurely. If installing multiple batteries, you always do them all at the same time, or at a MAXIMUM, within 6 months of each other.

Secondly, think it out... 1: Why would somebody (likely a salesman, maybe?) tell you that you have to have a cap for each amp? 2: If you or anybody else are installing, (and using electrical theories and laws in every step of that installation, whether you realize it or not) you should be able to figure out why a cap can go anywhere in the system with equal zero efficacy, but I'll tell you straight out, it shouldn't matter where you put the cap, it still doesn't do what you are putting it in the system for.

Caps are band-aids on bullet wounds. If you believe you need one, you have issues elsewhere in your system, and you need to address those FIRST.

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Posted By: plummo_vtec
Date Posted: May 10, 2009 at 12:29 PM
i dont have issues i just though it may be benificial to maximise what i have cheers for the battery info mate

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you can turbo a vtec but you cant vtec a turbo





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