16V 1 Farad Capacitor...

[Silver Bull3t]

Been thinking about this for the last day or so... Would I receive any gains from wiring a 1 Farad Capacitor in parallel with my battery... should give me a good resorvoir of current....

I used to be in the whole car audio big amps and subs thing, and remember all the adds for "lightening caps" and big "stiffening caps" to better reinforce the sub amps 12VDC supply on a heavy hit. So I guess a cars overall electrical system could benefit from a similar effect..

So Do you think I should use one of these 16VDC 1 Farad Capacitors, (or both )


Don't think it would harm anything as I used it in my old ass metro (for amps) and had no problems with my electrical system.

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[r1ceburner]

Been thinking about this for the last day or so... Would I receive any gains from wiring a 1 Farad Capacitor in parallel with my battery... should give me a good resorvoir of current....

I used to be in the whole car audio big amps and subs thing, and remember all the adds for "lightening caps" and big "stiffening caps" to better reinforce the sub amps 12VDC supply on a heavy hit. So I guess a cars overall electrical system could benefit from a similar effect..

So Do you think I should use one of these 16VDC 1 Farad Capacitors, (or both )


Don't think it would harm anything as I used it in my old ass metro (for amps) and had no problems with my electrical system.

cat for scale...

I'm going to have to say, "No". Capacitors provide two things: Surge current capacity and AC filtering.

Since your car's system is 12Volts DC, the only thing the Cap would filter is any high-frequency line noise possibly caused by a noisy alternator. Even with alternator noise, the first thing a decent circuit designer does is filter the incoming power to the device. Therefore, I cannot think of how filtering "noisy" power is going to help the ECU or injectors. Even if the ECU didn't have any decent power filtering built into it, the only way you could effectively clean-up the power to the ECU is if you wired the Cap to the power input of the ECU. Good luck hacking up the car's wiring harness... =)

That leaves "Surge Current". When subwoofer amps thump out low notes, that takes lots of current to move those speaker cones. It does NOT take much current to open fuel injectors at idle or WOT. In fact, if the average current draw during idle vs. WOT varies by more than about 1amp, something is really wrong...like an injector shorting out....

It is possible it might help a poorly running car run well, but I do not believe it will give you any *performance*.

 

[Silver Bull3t]

1Farad Cap.

wow,....thanks.

 

[goldwing2000]

You'd be better off harnessing the cat.