I just bought a digital cap and on the case it says it needs to be chraged before install, how do I do this? Thank you
Jimi

some come with charging plates, but you really don't need to use one. just wire it up, and it'll be fine.

i dunno about that. A capacitor stores energy and if it doesn't have any energy to begin with, there is nothing to store. Your capacitor should have come with a resistor. Just hold the resistor inbetween the power wire and the positive tab on the capacitor(but use a kitchen mit or a dry towel trust me) until your digital readout stops increasing. It should be somewhere between 12 and 14ish volts. If the didgital readout doesn't work, just use a DMM. Hope this helps ya.

thats what the package says too, but their is NO resistor. What does it look like
Jimi

it'z a little wire with a very small tubish thing on it. http://www.deas.harvard.edu/courses/es154/2001/pages/nicetut/book1/resistors.html go here and and scroll to the bottom. If your capacitor didn't come with one just go to radio shack and pick one up. I forget the size but it's only purpose is to prevent the capacitor from charging too quickly so i guess the size isn't the biggest thing in the world.

You can also use a test light to charge it. just ground the capacitor, hook the alligator clip to the power wire then touch the point of the test light to the positive on the capacitor. The Light will come on and start dimming as the capacitor charges up. When the light goes out, it's charged. I've charged all mine this way and it works great. I dont recomend just hooking them up because they are made to suck up alot of enrgy real fast and I have heard they can damage electrical systems. Some stereo shop told me they could explode but I dont know if I believe it would from hooking it up.