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Alamani Capicitors?

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Old 03-27-2010, 03:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Benjamin
a Capacitor will not help with the problem you are describing. Capacitors were originally used for competition use where the audio system was "Burped" the capacitor discharges completely during the initial "burp" and will re-charge after the current is reduced. you need an extra battery or 2 if you are jamming that hard. in my old competition van i had 6 batteries and 4 1.5F capacitors and twin 140A alternators. so either get a bigger alternator and a higher amperage battery or 2 or lower the volume a little bit.

remember that a diesel requires a good bit more amperage to crank than a gas burner does.
 
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Old 03-27-2010, 04:01 PM
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man that was about 10 years ago when i was young and dumb..... i wish i still had pics of it.... it was fun though 4 15's and 8 1000D amps..... man those were the days.....
 
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Old 03-27-2010, 07:19 PM
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ya well i was hopin that it would help but guess not. The problem seems not to happen as frequent as it did. HAd bad fuse able link bad starting sylinoid and it could have been all those with the bad startin problems and all the amps that I pull. But in a month or less its all comin out cause the truck will be up for sale
 




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