A couple months ago I installed a new subwoofer, amp and capacitor into my box. I've got the mon pdx-1.1000 amplifier with the SWX-1043D subwoofer. I installed a capacitor as well, and everything was working fine. Until about a month and a half ago. My capacitor would usually shut off about 5 min after I locked my doors, but now its not shuting off. I thought maybe my I didn't have a good ground so I checked it out and its fine, its using the same ground position as the amplifier. So, then I thought it might of been because my capacitor wasdn't charged, so I plugged it on the charger for about 4 hours on trickle charge and still, the capacitor stays on after everything is locked. My box has been parked for a month in my heated garage because of winter but I want to try to figure this out! Anybody have an idea?

Thanks,
Steve

 

You need the 1.8 Jigawatts needed to power the Flux Capacitor!

Jus Mess'in...Had to say it!

 

lol, anyways, friendly bump!

 

maybe a bad cap??? See if u can switch your cap with a friend's car stereo system cap + review the outcome once installed in each vehicle. See if you or he has that problem. Good Luck

 

Yeah, I guess thats what I hve to do next... And then if it is a bad cap, I have a warranty, but I baught it on audiosavings.com, so it would take me days to ship it and get a new one....

 

just a couple things to consider...

- a capacitor will stay on as long as a source is pulling power from it..for instance like a amp/crossover is trickling or staying on. i m assuming u used the power on line feed from your car stereo or u made a on/off switch from a constant power source to your components that the capacitor is assisting. you can always remove the power on feed from the other devices to ensure they are not staying on causing ur cap to stay on.

- Is the cap digital? digitally managed caps come with a resisiter to assist with the initial charge of the cap before first use. this allows the cap a perfect amount of voltage to charge by putting the resister inline on the power for several minutes this will charge the cap. i have found if recharge with the supplied resister it will reset the electronics almost like resetting a watch or the presets on ur stereo.

hope this helps...these are just obscure fixes i have found over the many years or installing car audio. it could be as easy as the a fore mentioned ideas. i have had to reset my digital 3 farad cap 2 times now after replacing battery and after my entire front end was replaced after a deer accident in which the cap stayed on and would not turn off.

 

The cap is digital. And the way I plugged it is the power to a fuse, to my cap, to my amp. And the amp is controlled by a 'remote' cord that I plugged to my deck. When I turn my amp off from the deck or turn the deck off, the amp turns off, so the cap has nothing pulling juice from it.... I really don't know what this could be hahah. I guess I'll re-try resetting the cap....