gdubs

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Ok so here this the CAP I bought.

BOSS AUDIO SYSTEMS | ENTERTAIN YOURSELF

Ok so heres my question. I have never installed one of these so.

If my Wiring is correct is goes

Battery + to Cap + to Amp +

Then the Negative side

Cap - to ground Amp - To ground

IS it normal for my cap to stay on? I dont see a remote wire to tell it to turn off.

Q Bert

iTrader: (1)

Yes those cheep ones usualy stay on all the time.

gdubs

iTrader: (32)

IS that a bad thing? or is it ok?

Q Bert

iTrader: (1)

Shouldnt cause any issue unless you leave the car sit for a long period of time. I am not a fan of caps so I might be the wrong person for any in depth info. I usualy try and steer my customers more of upgrading the electrical system battery's and Alt. before resorting to a cap.

jmesl8er

Who wants to spend hundreds of dollars getting a better alt. when you can get a cheap capacitor that does a good job???

jmesl8er

BOSS=POOP never seen anything good come from boss. That the brand that sells at the Mexican flea market. The cap will stay on all the time, should'nt hurt anything

c4w18

I can only hope this is sarcasm.

Q Bert

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Some people are not ok with just good.

EmperorJJ1

iTrader: (5)

why does the flea market have to be mexican huh?

1LowLS

I think BOSS is made by Jensen.Ive never had problems with either or.

EmperorJJ1

iTrader: (5)

i think boss is their own company

1LowLS

I remember seeing Jensen on a boss headunit box.I could be mistaken though.
I am mistaken,Jensen makes DUAL.oops lol

EmperorJJ1

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hmm i could be wrong. unless they recently got bought up or something

1LowLS

Edited previous post,but even then I had a headunit from boss with boss 6.5 3 way speakers and never had any problems and sounded pretty good for being cheap.they went in a 77 K5 blazer.

EmperorJJ1

iTrader: (5)

nope jensen boss is its own... phase linear is a line of jensen thou

Welcome to Audiovox Corporation

"Audiovox acquires Jensen, Advent and Acoustic Research audio brands from Recoton Corporation; Company enters international market through purchase of Recoton German Holdings GmbH"

1LowLS

ya edited previous post.I just have shitty memory lol

jmesl8er

Because its literally a Mexican flea market. Everything is in spanish. In the summer they come up to cut tobacco, we've got a couple of little mexican stores too. Also check out the consumer report on BOSS

EmperorJJ1

iTrader: (5)

lol i just wanted to see what you would say. over here the only flea markets are mexican. but they are the ****

redcobalt07

iTrader: (18)

A capacitor is just like a battery so it doesn't really go off like an amp would. And it doesn't drain power from your battery, just itself.

SSmokie the bear

Yep, act like its a small battery. Also if you just bought it, see if you can return it. There are small lightweight batteries for car audio that work way better than a cap.

jmesl8er

yep, thats where we get are fruit for the week, always good ****

EmperorJJ1

iTrader: (5)

i think he means the digital display as far as what is "on or off" but your right a cap wouldnt drain power from the battery if its fully functional. if its busted then ya it will **** some **** up good

CordiaDOHC

iTrader: (2)

Honestly the only cap style setup id run would be the batcap. Which is a small battery and cap together.

Otherwise if you are truly pushing that much power then a second battery is a much better option. Ive always viewed caps as crutches and often times they dont do much at all.

Ive been to many of the local db drags and soundoffs I dont think ive seen a cap in a single vehicle there. Lots of 2nd 3rd and 15 battery setups though

EmperorJJ1

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i agree with you 100% but you cant really compare a competition setup to a daily driver. Most competitors are just random people who sign up and see what happens type deal but almost everything a true competitor does is counter productive to listening to music. the cars that win world championship trophies are really just cars meant to win trophies.

im just saying theres a very small amount of things that you can get away with doing in your ride because a competitor did it in theirs

CordiaDOHC

iTrader: (2)

True though my buddies has 2 treo 12s with an mmats amp for the sub and dd main speaker amp. He runs a spare battery to keep it up and its in his daily driver envoy. Sounds pretty good. He does 141db in the envoy not pushing it all the way to its limit.

But yeah most of the people that show up to this place are true competitors (mach 1 audio in washington missouri)