Anyone use an Audison Capacitor?

[Panopticon]

EDIT: I PICKED THE WRONG FORUM, SORRY ADMINS!!!!!!

Hey folks. I just picked up this CAP at East Hamilton Radio. It was $149.

I\'ve never used a cap before and i\'m not expecting a huge difference, but has anyone used this particular name brand before? All the review sites i find arn\'t in english and the translation is pretty poor.

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Sorry the pic is blurry, its just too damn shiney to use the flash.

Audison Connection
DSF 08
.8 Farad
20VDC

[TheProfessor]

As far as brands go Audison is a fairly reputable brand with focus on SQ. To be honest though I didn\'t even know they made caps, I\'ve only ever read positive reviews of their amplifiers.

[Panopticon]

TADA! here is the end result.

Yes, I know its very messy, and I\'m in a good spot with that :D The sound is crisper and cleaner to me, and I can turn it up much more with less distortion and no dimming lights! hoorah!

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[TheProfessor]

Your lights were dimming before? I haven\'t seen the lights dim in my MZ3 once and I\'m running similar if not more power!

[Panopticon]

yah, she was dimming. not excessivly, but at night it was very noticable.

[xg3]

i am pushing 1200watt rms on 2 amps, with dvd dash w/ navi , hids and fog at night, NO CAP, and i can go up to the max volume my ears can handle and there will never be a sign of dimming. i think u should check on ur power cable and grounding.. sand off the area u put ur ground on. Thats very abnormal for the equipment u are using.

[Panopticon]

Originally posted by xg3


i am pushing 1200watt rms on 2 amps, with dvd dash w/ navi , hids and fog at night, NO CAP, and i can go up to the max volume my ears can handle and there will never be a sign of dimming. i think u should check on ur power cable and grounding.. sand off the area u put ur ground on. Thats very abnormal for the equipment u are using.

We\'ll its entirely possible that I don\'t have the best ground. I\'m grounded to the bolt behind the passenger rear, big black bolt i think. i sanded around it, made sure there was good contact and all that. I\'m used a 4g from a stinger kit, fused at the battery at 50A, to a distribution block in the back, from there an 8g to the amp fused at 30A and an 8g to the ground....well now i have the cap in there too, but also 8g.

Is there a good common place to ground at? I can\'t see mine being THAT bad, but mabe there\'s a better spot.

edit: did you run seperate power for the HU? I\'m currently just plugged into the existing harness for power.

[Panopticon]

update:

I replaced the ground just in case. I drilled my own hole and made a nicer connection. Seems good. I\'m still getting distortion in the high end but thats just the limitation of my crap sub + speakers.
I hope to put the door speakers on an external amp sometime, but before I do that I want new speakers + sub :(