I would start by upgrading the wire, doing the big 3 as i had mentioned earlier..

And it will cost you less to do the Big 3 then a battery or cap.

 

hmmm not much money now, have you had your electrical system checked to make sure it is working correctly? The 800 watt amp is not something that should really be challenging the electrical system. Caps dont have that much value as a power source, and since you havent got that much money right now, upgrade the system wiring, clean the ground connections, verify the + and - connection is a quality connection. Find the weaknesses now so the mega watt amp you buy later doesnt really kick your butt.

 

Out of all the things I have read, very little made any sense. You are concerned about power but you don't or can't address the one thing that will solve it and instead are looking for magic power dust [img]graemlins/dunno.gif[/img] Dukk touched on a very good point, find out more about what he meant. To it I'll add this.

A cap does not create power, it uses and stores it. A battery does not create power, it stores it. If you have a tiny little alternator and it can not keep up with a one battery system, how is it suppossed to keep up with a two battery system? [img]graemlins/dunno.gif[/img]

Upgrade the stock battery to a good size battery, make sure that the ground return resistance is as low as possible. Then if you need power, an alternator is the only way to go. Once the vehicle is running, the alternator supplies power to the vehicle, not the battery. Need more power, the battery dumps in what it can. Draw too much power and no amount of batteries or caps in the world will make any difference. How is that tiny little alternator going to keep up with you blasting your system and trying to charge the main battery and a second battery or 2F cap as well.

Don't put a band aid on to solve the problem, address the problem and solve it.

 

^Actually a battery does create Electrical power, from it's stored chemical energy. There is a limit to the rate it can be produced and for how long.

caps do not create electrical power, they store it

edited due to Dereks post below (my post was not as well written as it should have been)

[ November 03, 2004, 10:07 PM: Message edited by: JohnVroom ]

 

i dont wanna waste any cash on battery/alternator cuz my car is a POS and will most likely die this winter.

so it will basically be money wasted into a ****box. so i wanna buy a 2nd battery or cap.

 

Instead of buying that 2nd battery for ur POS, buy that 1 good battery and remove ur crappy one and do the Big 3 like suggested.

 

I think He wants everyone to tell him to get a cap..


So go get a cap, your not wanting proper help anyways

 

slow/n\low,
do you mean me?
i found out what i needed to know. this thread has now become an information source for others.

 

<slaps upside the head> If you mean this "so i wanna buy a 2nd battery", then buy one good, really good main battery and replace the factory battery with it. Keep the old battery for after the POS gets a bullet in the spring or winter some time, you can take out Mr. Nice New Battery and give back to the now dead POS, the old battery.