Wiring 2 1 farad capacitors - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

iazuncupidi · 01-12-2004, 09:54 PM

Ok, Here's what im trying to do. Right now im running a 1 farad digital capacitor, But what im thinking is buying another 1 farad capacitor.

I was wondering how would wire up 2 capacitors?????? anyone have diagrams that i can print out. I will be building my amp rack soon and i wanna do it right the first time. I have gone thru so many systems and i finally got all the right stuff i want now.

Can anyone help????

Thanks

Kenny

[SMAN] · 01-12-2004, 10:33 PM

In general you would only want to have have 1 cap per amp, so if you got 2 amps, fork the wires, then run them into the caps before going into the amps.

Stealth · 01-13-2004, 01:39 AM

Yeah wouldn't it cause excessive cap wear if you had 2 hooked up to one amp? cause the one hooked up to the amp would drain the other one whenever it charges up or something?

iazuncupidi · 01-13-2004, 03:06 AM

im running a total of 3 amps....and 1 dc to ac 400watts inverter hooked up with a ps2 if needed.

2 Jl audio e2150 and 1 Jl audip 500/1. i have one cap then its forked into the 3 amps and the invertor.. but when i play at high volumes i get flickers on my interior lights...

so running 2 of them would have a little more reserve power just in case my bass hits..i thought about the extra batt but with what i have its not really needed. I would have just bought 1 2 farad cap bit since i already had 1 i just bought another one so that it equals to 2 farad when hooked up together.

click on my www button and look at my solara page and system set-up.. i have a diagram of how i have it hooked up right now...

i just need to see how the setup is like a wire diagram. i want to be sure to have it hook up right..

Stealth · 01-13-2004, 03:11 AM

most people say you only need 1 farad per 1000 watts RMS.. if that means anything

iazuncupidi · 01-13-2004, 03:24 AM

yea..but is 1000watts max..... im running about 900watts rms not including the invertor... some others have told me on other forums... but i feel that im not getting enough just out of one cap...

but anyone got any diagrams or pictures of a install they did or saw????

88 LE · 01-13-2004, 10:22 AM

Wire the caps in parallel.

IE.... + of first cap to + on second cap. Same for the negative.

iazuncupidi · 01-13-2004, 03:04 PM

thank you.. im going to give that a try and see if i have any problems...

thanks