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Savinforcorsaproject
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14th Sep 03 at 18:58   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Looked through google for 45 mins now cannot see any diagrams for wireing up power caps ?
Any one kno one?
Cheers

[Edited on 14-09-2003 by Savinforcorsaproject]
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First thing is to Earth it, the best place is same earth as amp/amps, second you have to charge it, to do this you attach cable to it but not straight from the battery there has to be a gap in the wire into which you stick a bulb of some sort usually get one with the cap then the bulb will light up as its charging when the bulb goes out you know it is fully charged!!!!!
Now you have the earth and it is charged all you have to do is to chop it into the system the easiest way is by wireing it into you distribution block if you have one!!!!

If you do then all you do is use one of the side entrances to the distribution block where the battery cable goes and hey presto, if you dont have a distribution block i cant quite remember what you have to do, but i think you have to run the battery wire to the cap then run another wire from the cap to the amp so effectivly just chopping it into the system, hope this helps
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I see so at the mo its
Battery > Cable > Distribution Block > The 2 out going Amps

So it wud be:

Battery > Light > Power Cap > Distribution Block > 2 out goin amps?
Fear
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This is how it should end up:

Hopefully that makes it clearer, with the bulb you take the wire from battery attach the bulb to that then attach a piece of wire to the cap then add the bulb to this this will charge the cap without damaging it and then when the bulb goes out it is fully charged so remove the bulb then wire up as above
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cheers 4 the pic!
Richie
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15th Sep 03 at 18:36   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
ERRR WRONG!


Ground the cap independantly!
Richie
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ver ver quick diagram:
drunkenfool
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which is which?!
Richie
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give me 5 mins
drunkenfool
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what would this forum do without you?!
Richie
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it would bug corb and steve
Richie
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Only use the cap for your bass amp, not for any other. The cap and amps must be grounded independently, dont just share off the amps ground
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Other thing was, if you have 2 batteries, do you have to connect all the ICE stuff to the negative terminal of the battery for the ICE, or can you connect the negs of both batteries to the chassis and then connect the grounds to that? Dunno if i explained that well, but do you have to keep the high drain stuff seperate from the normal car runing stuff?!
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Ok soooorrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyy im just going on what ive been told to do by the EXPERTS at sextons
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You need to connect the negatives of both batteries to the chassis regardless otherwise they wont work or charge. Using the positive of one battery and the negative of another wont work. However once you have connected both batteries to the chassis, you can connect the grounds wherever you like but if the second battery is quite close then connect it directly to the terminal.
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Well the guys at Sextons cant be that good then can they! I emailed Stinger earlier in the US to make sure i was correct and they gave me a link to a page with this diagram:






so im right
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Ok so sud i wire it like this?::::






Let me know cheers

[Edited on 15-09-2003 by Savinforcorsaproject]
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speakers have to come off the amp. not from the power distribution blovk...
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savin im not bein funny but u really really need to get a professional to do ur system otherwise ur gonna blow urself up...
Savinforcorsaproject
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howd ya mean ? Austin??


drunkenfool
I kno i just cudnt be bother to draw another amp more lines e.t.c.

But is that right the guide i just used its like urs austin tho ?
JpA
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16th Sep 03 at 07:34   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
"Only use the cap for your bass amp, not for any other" - in that case on your diagram move the cap in between amp1 & the distribution block.
- its a fuse not a bulb

give him a chance guys, if you don't do it yourself you'll never learn.
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CheekyCorsa
said use a bulb?

I seee the power cap goes in between the amp thats powering the subs ( Bass ) and thats it ok i got it

Can i have more than one Power Cap ?
Richie
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The charging bulb/resistor is only used the first time to avoid huge sparks when connecting up the cap. Its not in there permanently.
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Yeh auss i gussed that one
Savinforcorsaproject
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how long does it take to charge dont want to be still there watchign the cap for ages! lol

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