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Old 05-16-2014, 02:25 PM   #476
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Yeah , I was seeing that huge caps are rather affordable now ... Two of these guys would provide 60 Farad ... that's a lot to power the motor for a few seconds all by themselves. In conjunction with an AGM battery .. it might just be a perfect combo (in theory)

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/power-ac...at165900050030
First of all, 60 farads will lose over 3V each second with the power levels we are looking at.

Furthermore, car audio caps usually have a max voltage of 18-20 volts, so you would only be able to use a single battery (12v) battery with that cap, else put them in series which halves the capacitance. So it would take 4 of those caps to get 30 farads on a 24v setup. 60F would need 8. Therein lies the big issue with running high voltages with caps.
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