Originally posted by ShadowAu
where are you from WC? your use of the ICE term leads me to think maybe the U.K... the only place where that term has ever been widely used
haha, I'm down south in Vic... Brit-car lover definitely, but perhaps I shouldn't read 'MAX' magazine so much...
Depends where you hang out I guess. The fellas that deal in stealth instos into german wheels still use "ICE" quite a bit... ICE would mean a totally different thing to the doofdoof crowd tho!!
I've never had ANY experience with lag in response time with large caps... all quality caps start discharging within 1000ths of a second after the power supply is removed... otherwise their purpose in a car audio install is pointless... caps are meant to provide the instant power required by the amplifier to reproduce transient peaks in the music (usually bass related but not always) so unless their response was instant they would be a pointless addition
Modern car audio caps these days are probably better designed for the job... I suspect they may now even be an array of various different sized caps to improve their response time. Last one I lifted up didn't feel very "full"... like it was half empty.
In the early days (say late 80s) the boys were just starting to use caps. We would search around for large caps from used industrial equipment, these were the real deal. Roughly speaking 0.5F ones (size of a coffee mug) weighed about 1kg...