hinow41

Ok since the best buy and all the other big stores around here suck with Audio i bring my question to you guys. I have 2 10" subs and an amp and a cap in the back of my car and When the bass hits hard at night my head lights dim a little. I bought the cap to fix this but i guess it does not. What els can i do?
Also what is a good brand of speakers to put in my car? I have sonys xplode in there now and i dont like them. for subs I have Kenwood same for the amp and my deck is sony (only because it was cheep and has a usb hookup )

fiftyandsoco

i am not a big audio guy, but an audio battery might help. something like a yellowtop. as far as good speakers, i could only recommend the major brands (rockford fosgate, alpine, jl audio, memphis, resonate engineering, etc.)

SilvrLT

Boston Accoustics speakers are sweet, pricy but verry good, as for the power problen you may need a bigger altranator, or try to adjust the amp so the bass dose not hit so hard.

Drakonen2000

maybe you need a bigger cap? ...and a more hardcore battery!

Spun

iTrader: (1)

A cap wont really help
How long is your ground?
What size wire are U using
A bigger Batt. might help, but replace the stock batt. ground with a thicker one (0/1 guage)
Make sure your using at least 4 gauge wire and your ground is no bigger than 24 inches, sand the paint away from wherever your ground is
Try grounding the amp right to the same ground as the batt.

Red2.4SS

How many Farad's is your cap?

I think mine is a 5 farad, and I'm only running the OEM 10"

Overkill, yes. But way easier on the entire electrical system.

hinow41

Ok if I buy another battery I can just hook the cap up to it. Wouldn't that drain that battery quick?

BLAZIN07SS

iTrader: (7)

not a separate battery, a replacement battery for your OEM one. like others have suggested, Optima Deep Cycle Yellow Top

SSRedSC

How big is your amp? Might be overkill for two xplodes and thats prob why you dont like them besides the fact that they suck. Does it do this all the time or just at idle? Your alternator should be putting out plenty of juice to run those subs, if it does it a little at idle I would understand but not at speed.

HackAbuse

Caps don't help.

Get a yellowtop.

ViSiONZ

Get an optima yellow top... read this thread about it that I started.

https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/electronics-audio-video-49/can-i-replace-stock-battery-optima-red-yellow-top-100142/

pik

help us out and give us model #'s of the amp and subs that you have now.

i would bet the gain on your amp is cranked which is not good, give us some info.

as far as speaker go everything is subjective, what is good for me, may not be good for you, best advice is to listen to different brands in other peoples cars if you can

daedlus

iTrader: (3)

With my last system, I tried all the above, and what fixed it for me was a high output alternator. Get your's rewound to a higher amperage, or buy a new one...

cobaltguy88

same **** with me.. i just turned down the gain on the amp... less power, but fixed the dimming

pik

this is definately the weak point in the system I was surprised to find out that our stock alts are only like 105 amps, this is dissapointing, my '01 alero was 140 amps and never had an issue, i only run 700 quality total watts.

good for you dude

rule number one. your gain is not a volume knob

maybe the mods will want to post this link as a sticky, i would only be quoting from it if i wrote a post myself.


http://mobile.jlaudio.com/products_a...php?page_id=30

hinow41

KFC-W2511 10" Subwoofer I have 2 of these And this is my amp Kenwood KAC-8103D
1000W Class D Monoblock Amplifier

And I dont know what kind of cap it is i forgot I bought it from some one off the site here is a pic

pik

check the gain setting, if those are 4ohm subs, and from what i've seen they are, they are prob wired to 2 ohms. at 2 ohms that amp will do 500w rms, it has 1 40 amp fuse, no way even at max juice that should be a problem. check your grounds, ground should be as short as possible, secure and on bare metal.

hinow41

I have the ground going to the neg of the battery. Is that bad?

SSRedSC

Ive just always grounded to the frame, thats where the battery is grounded also so that probably is increasing the length of your ground wire in theory I guess..

iLLmaTic3s

i would hook the ground line onto the frame...mite do the fix. when i do my systems i hook it to the frame

pik

if it is on the battery terminal, i would move it to where the battery is grounded to on the car

EmperorJJ1

iTrader: (5)

take the cap out and run the 4g all the way to the amp, redo the ground with 1/0, replace battery with carquest NGT extreme or other AGM style deep cycle, replace battery terminals

hinow41

Ok I went down to a local store and they want $200 for the yellow top battery.... and they told me that I need a bigger alt... So yeah i'm going to try that hole ground thing to see if thats the case.

EmperorJJ1

iTrader: (5)

hey optimas are expensive hence why i dont recommend them

doubledirtyc

is there a good place to get a high output alt because i have 2 yellow tops and 2 caps and my lights dim lol