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Old 09-04-2011, 06:44 AM   #80
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Originally Posted by serialk11r View Post
lol Type[R]+ chill...
How is a capacitor not harder to use than a battery? A capacitor's voltage goes from its maximum to 0 as it discharges, and does this rather quickly since they don't store as much energy, a battery stays within a much narrower range when it is usable. The point isn't that it's not difficult (in some sense of the term), the point is that it's more difficult than a typical battery. You need a voltage converter that works across a greater range of conditions for the capacitor, do you not?
They use ultra capacitors, much more powerful than regular capacitors.

It depends on how they integrate the ultra capacitors into the circuit, like using the ultra capacitors as main source with battery back up, or using them to make an ultra battery. Look up ultra battery, very nice tech...

But back to the capacitor circuit, yes you need a voltage converter, between the cat banks and the battery, and just use digital signal processor to control variables. I'm pretty sure this is how they do it anyway.
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