Why does my portable vCap dock work so well for me then?
These capacitors all have the same microfarad(uF) rating for the most part, between 2 and 5 microfarads or .2 to .5 joules on average. I think they are also all rated for up to 150 or 250 volts, which I doubt we are outputting that much from an iPod. We REALLY don't want the full amount of amperage pouring into our amps or headphones causing serious damage to the equipment or even you. So we charge a capacitor and have it regulate the flow of signal out.
I believe all the capacitor is doing is regulating the amperage and smoothing out the signal. As long as we don't have to fill a can sized capacitor with charge, the iMod puts out enough amperage to possibly damage an amp or headphones on its own. It may use a bit more power charging the capacitor, but not enough to be concerned about. Maybe about 15 minutes playtime is what I might estimate, but I am still a novice to all this as I don't experiment much with this stuff out side of a breadboard, I'm probably wrong.
EDIT: do people still not understand that this has little to do with a stock iPod? The classic has nothing to do with this entire thread so far. Only an
iMod can take advantage of these capacitors. Of course the classic wouldn't benefit from this, your right.
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Originally Posted by KB
WindowsX,
The caps are not for a regular iPod or a 6G, this is for use with a 5.5G iMod only.
Thx
Ken
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