Capcitor burned out my Sub?

Question:
hey iv been trying to connect a capacitor to my 2 12" subs and the light to let me know when the capcitor is charged kept going on and off and it only reached 14.2 so every time i would try and put the music my subs would just make a weird noise and everything would like slow down it felt as if the car was losing all its power and then regaining and so i smelled smoke, took out the sub out of the box and 1 of my 12's was fried i dunno wut the hell i did wrong can sum1 help please...thanks

Answers:

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Well your cap didn't do it. probably wired something wrong... Your voltage will be higher than 12 volts because your alternator must produce more power than 12 volts due to the resistance of the battery itself.

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So, I don't think it was all the cap hear me out here.

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A capacitor is inline on the power cable before the battery

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The amp only pulls what it needs from the power cable

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Is the amp too powerful for your subs?

Can you run a mono amp on 2 ohms to power a single 2 or 4 ohm DVC??


Is the peak power of the amp higher than the peak power of your subs?

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Did you wire it correctly?
Other than that I'm clueless dogg. Peace

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You most likely didn't have the cap wired right or the sub. The cap needs to be wired in parallel with the amps power.

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The fact that it reached 14 volts is not surprising since that's what the alternator would supply.
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