I had the thought of saving some money by buying a capacitor (1 farad)
from an Industrial supply store rather than a nice looking stupid
expensive one from a store. It's going in the trunk sub-floor so I
don't care what it looks like, as long as it performs.

I would think these caps would be of higher tolerances than the car
audio caps (I haven't compared specs, I'm just assuming.), but could
this have the potential to cause more distortion? Might not be the same
plates and dialectric inside, but obviously still holds charge..

Has anyone tried this before?

A cap, being used in the manner that you're suggestion, cannot introduce
noticable distortion. Yes, you can do this. Just make sure that the
voltage limitations of the cap isn't exceeded by the car's electrical
system.

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, dimset wrote:

I had the thought of saving some money by buying a capacitor (1 farad)
from an Industrial supply store rather than a nice looking stupid
expensive one from a store. It's going in the trunk sub-floor so I
don't care what it looks like, as long as it performs.

I would think these caps would be of higher tolerances than the car
audio caps (I haven't compared specs, I'm just assuming.), but could
this have the potential to cause more distortion? Might not be the same
plates and dialectric inside, but obviously still holds charge..

Has anyone tried this before?

check the esr and compare it to a Car Audio Cap...The car audio cap will
probably have lower esr.

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I had the thought of saving some money by buying a capacitor (1 farad) from
an Industrial supply store rather than a nice looking stupid expensive one
from a store. It's going in the trunk sub-floor so I don't care what it
looks like, as long as it performs.

I would think these caps would be of higher tolerances than the car audio
caps (I haven't compared specs, I'm just assuming.), but could this have
the potential to cause more distortion? Might not be the same plates and
dialectric inside, but obviously still holds charge..

Has anyone tried this before?