A funny cap story
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Topic: A funny cap story
Posted By: Clean Install
Subject: A funny cap story
Date Posted: March 27, 2004 at 8:57 PM
This morning after I got off from work a guy wanted me to listen to his system... bear with me.... well he had a test cd that he picked up from best buy... and well anyhow I get in the car then he turns on the key but does not start the car then he has me get back out and take a look at his setup... two twelves but they were two different models I about lost it I asked him why he had to differnt models in and he said that he blew one so he went to a pawn shop and picked up a 2nd they both were rockford I will give him that... anyhow what I wanted to tell yall was while we were looking at his subs he went and started the disc....I asked him if he was going to start his car... his reply was I dont need too......I was amazed at this then he proceed to tell me that he has a cap..... hahah I was ok you have a cap, why do you think that since you have a cap you dont need to start your car.... his reply was that his cap a 1.5f , is powering the amp not his battery  Listend to it for about 10 maybe 15 minutes then he went to start his car hummmm..... I wonder what was wrong ------------- If we learn from each success and
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Posted By: mobile1
Date Posted: March 27, 2004 at 9:04 PM
classic, "professional" LOVE IT
Posted By: auex
Date Posted: March 27, 2004 at 11:51 PM
Wouldn't 1.5 farad cap power the amps for like a whole half a second? Really the car wouldn't start? Better tell him to have his cap checked out.
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Posted By: Clean Install
Date Posted: March 28, 2004 at 12:17 AM
we listened to it like 10-15minutes...(he was tweaking his system...and was playing sweeps, even pink noise) but really thought he Thought the system was being powered by the cap.... I tried to explain that maybe for a second or two the cap gave the amp power but then it was all being put on the battery which he did not beleive me at all... he said he does this all the time..and it starts..... I almost wonder why he bought the cap for in the first place.... he was dead set on that the cap was powering the system... i should have asked him ..... if his HU was conected to the cap...LOL ------------- If we learn from each success and
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Posted By: xtreamcc
Date Posted: March 28, 2004 at 2:01 AM
thats classic, I've heard of people who think that their head units can power a sub so they dont get an amp, but someone who thinks their caps gona power their system, classic.... oh so classic. Excllent story Clean
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Posted By: Clean Install
Date Posted: March 28, 2004 at 2:07 AM
thanks, speaking of a HU powering a sub, a friend was telling me that when he was in high school, thats what he did...
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Posted By: xtreamcc
Date Posted: March 28, 2004 at 2:18 AM
lol, I just sold a pair of old sonys to this girl I worked with and I tried to sell her a little amp to push them.... her first reply "Why can I just hook them up to my head unit?"
The world seems full of people who just dont take 2 seconds to think or at least enlighten themselves about the things around them.
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Posted By: atwageman
Date Posted: March 30, 2004 at 4:18 AM
Some people just have a case of chronic brain farts. You just got to love the experts we all see from time to time.
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Posted By: sroth140
Date Posted: April 01, 2004 at 5:46 PM
like people who wire subs in parallel with the rear by 9's and leave the subs free air on the trunk floor.
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Posted By: atwageman
Date Posted: April 02, 2004 at 1:39 AM
you got it. besides the air is free, no need to spend the money on mdf and related materials. They can use the money for making a down payment on a used Sparkomatic tape deck down at the pawn shop. heehee ------------- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
Posted By: hghnaz
Date Posted: April 17, 2004 at 11:48 PM
LOL@ Sparkomatic ... I prefer the ol stock am/fm/casette with seperate bass and treble controls. Especially after it hasnt been cleaned so tapes sound like you are on a couple doses. LOL
Posted By: NINsane18
Date Posted: April 18, 2004 at 8:02 PM
Don't forget about Kraco and Roadmaster, LoL.
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Posted By: sroth140
Date Posted: April 22, 2004 at 12:57 AM
just a continuation, one of my co-installers went out to check a customers D-I-Y cap installs, he said it was laying against the jack in the trunk which was screwed to the chasis. oh lordy...
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