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Originally Posted by dazob
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1) First don't post links like that without an explanation
2) Don't trust any tech funded on indiegogos or kickstarters, whether or not this comes to fruition in the mass market or how it performs in the mass market is another thing, also as I'll say next it turned out to be a failure
3)THIS IS THE BIGGEST ISSUE:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/o...umped#/updates
It was a major failure and was done a year ago, backers were refunded and they said this:
"Additionally, recent failures in our test units proved the electrical needs of cars are more nuanced than we understood, even after months of thought. While this might be overcome by over spec'ing our components, this would mean a considerably higher cost and decreased value to our users. However, this is where time, clever thinking, and hard work may help. It might be possible that a deeper understanding of the problem could result in a solution. The ongoing advances in the technologies we use may also make this problem easier. But for now, the path to such a solution is too unclear to take your contributions in good conscience"
They didn't understand there are reason why capacitors aren't used long term for a car battery and a lot of issues were brought up a lot of issues during testing before sending it to backers.
4) I can tell as a budding electrical engineer why this is hard to create, capacitors self discharge, in fact even if they sourced the best capacitor EVER it would discharge around 5% overnight, that's not including what the car draws when off for electronics and evap tests etc. After several hours of sitting this capacitor will probably be dead. It awesome for something like KERs to get an electric boost but not for battery duty long term