Wow, I would love to see a real world example with a bank of your own home made batteries!!! Amazing. :D

It's like one of those forehead-slapping "DUH!" moments. AWESOME! THANKS! I have a 160V supercapacitor bank I couldn't figure out what to do with and now I have an idea for it! I was about 5 minutes from breaking it down into smaller banks!

Legit learned more from you than anyone else.

As soon as I saw the title, I knew it was "All about the discharge rates." You are brilliant, and I didn't even know I needed to find this.

I haven't been this excited about a youtube channel since I discovered the Victoria's Secret fashion channel! There was a moment during this that my brain said " I'm slowly starting to get it." I'll probably mark this day in my calendar. Keep them coming Robert!

Thanks Rob, I have gotten more value from your channel than any other source I have found, short of going to College, but who has time for that! Its funny how my shop mirrors yours since i have been watching for years. I miss the videos from your kitchen and back yard 🤣

You cover all the bases for battery power storage from home. Thank you, Robert.

Answered a lot of questions that have been rolling in the back of my mind for some time. Thank you!

Very good video Robert. You put in a lot of Work doing this video and it's appreciated. Thanks Robert.

Rob, you've done it again. That SSR you were holding up is a solid state Relay, not a rectifier. But still, It was a truly excellent video as yours always are. Thanks!

Every time I watch your videos and go away for a few minutes I can't get back to it to finish it!

Fantastic Rob, best explanation I have had the privilege of hearing. Thanks again.

Excellent video Rob, I love supercapacitors, they help to pick up the slack when you have a long wire to reach multiple loads which aren't all used at once.

Brilliant Robert, great video, and a good reference source.

I had to join. I have taken so much from this channel

Would love more indepth content on the subject! Have been trying to buffer my car battery with a 12v ultra cap cell to increase cranking amps and battery life

Shout out from across the pond. Brilliant as always thank you learning a lot

Brilliant information, one of your most useful videos yet!

You are amazing and I thoroughly enjoy your videos. Thank you!!!!

A VERY, VERY useful idea for many, many practical applications.

Short n sweet master class, nicely done.

Thank You for making me understand better...

Ty you for another great video and is a resolution to something ive been thinking about long time

Great Video As Always Rob I Do Have The Same Super Capacitors That You Have Got On Your Bench..I Made An Super Capacitor Bank With Charging Handle. 12 and 5 Volts Out..Works Well...But The Voltage Leak On The Super Capacitors Is Not Good..Should Of Gone For Maxwell Super Capacitors. I'm Going To Use A Battery In The Charger As Well And Thanks To The Great Video I Now Know How To Do It...Many Thanks

I would prefer your carbon megacap with your fractal BMS as a chemical battery front-end. I love watching a retired chemist learning entirely new basic science/tech - it's a good combination for helping the general public follow along and get interested themselves.

Thank Robert for sharing this, I learned a lot

Brilliant! Some food for thought.

That's pretty impressive... Thanks again!

I been thinking about this a lot. For EV use. Use a combination of storage media LAB for the bulk amperage and super caps for burst acceleration and storage of regenerative energy from braking. But to broke to do it. Same old same old....

The fast discharge rate vs. life at 1min53 sec was most useful. Home made batteries was the second most useful part for me. I've looked into super caps. for car batteries. Thank you.

Thanks for clearing this up, Robert! Apart from the car industry, do you see any other emerging technologies or applications that will demand a combination of a 'slow' battery with supercaps?

Thanks, nice to know!

Thanks for getting us out of the dog-house with our batteries!

Fantastic videos. Keep them coming😁🙏✌️🤘

if we take some ideas from 1502 altenators and mix them with this 1505 supercapacitors video it gets me thinking about a simple add-on mild hybrid for older cars.

Thank you Bud =) .........Was really hoping you would address the battery to cap issue........Some lithium Ion batteries instantly failed in this kind of set up, actually over discharging to fill the cap.......

Now I have to go back to your older videos to recall how to make some super capacitors and add them to my solar power bank.

Reminds me - can't recall the channel, but some years ago, I found a few videos of a guy who replaced his car battery with a super capacitor bank system that weighed like a 10th of the L/A batrery. No idea about longevity, but he claimed it made it though at least a couple winter weeks in a follow up vid.

Thank you Rob, I find this very interesting :) What about deep cycle battery's from a camper/caravan? Cheers!

Very interesting as always. A how to make a homemade battery installation for dummies video would be awesome.

Good stuff.

Great Knowledge Share Robert. Now that I have a sailboat I will create a power system with this method. You mentioned Homemade Batteries. Any vids for Best Marine Battery? Cheers :)

I have seen people putting super capacitors parallell with a small RC battery in place of a starter battery. The RC battery provides power to the radio/lights/door locks, and the super cap handles the current spike on starting. Seems to work in the videos, but of course it limits the power available without the engine running.

Thanks to you

Your work intrigues me, have you considered making a material capable of being cured with UV light? It could then be printed on a resin 3d printer into whatever shape you desire

I ❤ your vids they are great

I'd have to know more about super caps to know how to apply them. Are they more flexible for charging? (Like trickle charging from solar panels, or extreme fast charging from daisy chaining solar panels). I know that the electric motors I have around the house have two capacitors. One is a run capacitor, the other is a start capacitor. I think my AC might run the same way.

They would be good for regenerative braking, in electric vehicles too.

This is similar to an idea I had but at a much smaller scale. The stability and efficiency of the grid relies on the supply and load being in near perfect balance. Too much supply and the grid voltage rises and things go pop. Too much load and the voltage sags and you get blackouts. One of the main problems is that the grid supply is slow to respond. It can take upwards of 30mins from the demand increasing to a power plant upping its output, so predicting when the load is going to increase is important. There's obvious times. 7am and people get up and stick the kettle on. (While one 1kVA load is insignificant, 10 million 1kVA loads on the other hand.) So here's the idea, have homes install "powerwalls" that can balance the demand at the load side, rather than the supply side. everyone gets up and sticks the kettle on, or there's an ad break just before a world cup final penalty shootout (so everyone gets up and grabs another beer from the fridge) and rather than having to predict exactly when the load surge is going to happen, the load side energy storage supplies the demand locally, and then slowly recharges over the course of the day while your out at work. Add in some smart metering so the supply knows how much has been used, and you can keep the grid in near perfect balance. Probably explained that badly, but I'm sure you get the idea!

I have an off-grid 400W solar kitchen assist system. Our house is on grid energy. I ran parallel wiring into kitchen so we can choose between grid or off-grid power by plugging into desired wall plug. It sends solar energy into a 3000W inverter that is secondary power for our kitchen small appliances. It can power the large refrigerator/freezer during the day but the 400Ah battery bank is not quite enough to power frig through night. Can a Supercap be used to inject power into the battery bank in early morning hours so energy in bank could hold up until sun shines to recharge system power?

Thanks ! Any remedy for Mecer ups which seems to be programed to switch of after 10 minutes ?

I now make my packs with LiFePO4 batteries. eliminates that nasty explody burny issue.

Interesting facts

hello Rob would the balancing circuits for the super capacitors theyu supply work similar to the dc to dc converter or would both the balancing circuit and the converter be best,as im looking at putting a super cap buffer onto my high powered ebike of 84 volts to take greater advantage of regen

Now you've got me thinking...

Would it be feasible or useful to add a car audio capacitor to a basic solar power bank setup on leadacid? I have a system that runs a converted chest freezer fridge and the power draw on startup triggers the low voltage alarm when it starts. After the initial startup however it only draws around 80W or so. The car audio caps I've looked at range from 2-5 farad ratings. If it was hooked up parallel to the inverter would this provide the boost needed for startup of an inductive load? Thanks

Good Video. Just a quick question on inverters if any one is savy. We all know that current is only drawn when there is demand, ok so my question is actually do inverters have built in protection to limit there output. So say my home is using 2Kw of power and I have a small 200w inverter suplementing the house while drawing 1.8kw from the grid. What sort of circuit in the inverter protects it from having more than the 200w being drawn? Cheers if anyone knows.

Robert I think that would cause more problems than it would solve. A capacitor wants to push out everything it’s got. A converter or regulator will take all that and turn it into heat and waste it. The capacitor May lesson the load on the windmill and trigger the braking system which is usually done by adding a load to the system.

Bit of a different topic but same components. A lot of the concepts scavenge energy, relatively low energy. Can that energy be.accumulated by super capacitor then transferred to the battery even if the energy source has lower voltage than the battery? You mostly spoke of the supercaps leveling energy spikes.

This video starts to answer a question i had for you a few years back. How can you capture the power of a lightning bolt and use that power to slowly charge a battery bank. Should the power be drained from the atmosphere before the discharge bolt so i don't risk killing myself?

You ever try replacing the battery electrolyte with lithium sulfate?

Im very interested in using supercap to lighten the burden my car has on my leaded battery. Could i achieve this by connecting a bank of supercaps to a solar charger that outputs 12v and have the supercaps permanently in parallel to the car battery? Or its not simple as that. Thanks.

Hi, I'm a new subscriber and had a question I was hoping you could answer. I want to use something like this system to smooth out and help a grid tie inverter for maximum efficiency. As I understand it, the diagram would be as follows. Solarpanel -> mppt -> Battery -> Dc-dc Converter -> Supercap -> Grid Tie Inverter -> Home . Unfortunately, you los\st me at the relay thing and now I have no idea what this circuit would look like. If It's not a bother, could you help me a bit with what I should do?

Could you use that as a way to hook up power from different sources (solar and wind) to the same battery

I have a idea for a generator that is a washing machine motor, flywheel from a v eight, the Bendix off starters, inverter off one of four generator's going to a bank of super capacitors running the inverter to run power supply to run washing machine motor, will it work my friend?

I hear Sir Anthony Hopkins is set to portray you in the movie about your life.

When Rob talks batteries, I shut up and listen lol Q. how difficult would it be to reproduce my favorite battery ( the original Edison) and have you ever made 1? or do you plan to make 1 in the future, some are over 100 years old and still work like new. would love to hear your thoughts.

Here's a what if. For domestic use. you have a Iron and salt based Redox flow batterie with supercapacitors for the quick high load. I give this as an example, because I have been trying (Not always successfully) to produce energy storage with very simple everyday items that are cheap and environmentally ok, even if they are not super energy dense. what are your thoughts ?

Power Factor Correction if you all want to learn more

How hard would it be to take hydrogen from a battery bank and compress it for later use or use it for hot water, heating or fuel cells?

I thunk I'll just sacrifice the battery and save all the hoopla !!

Building a 300,000 farad 48v super capacitor room , I’m a madman 😂

I have a 16.8V 1000F (6s2p ,2.8V 3000F cells) that I use in my car with a small 10W solar panel. Because of the low internal resistance, I have been able to turn over the car at as low as 7V. Lowest I've got is 6V with a push start (it is standard, not automatic). I have been wanting to use a DC-DC converter not to charge from a lead-acid, but to extract the useful stored energy below 6V. It's not easy finding a 200A rated 12V boost converter that can run down from 1V or lower. But in the off chance that there is no such product, I wonder if anyone would be interested in me designing a low voltage extremely high current boost converter specifically for supercapacitors and low voltage cells?

Exactly ✅ - I have taken it back to Static Storage and then Down Convert "that" back to 440v 50 Amp 5-Phase 🏁 .. Tesla's Coil was not Intended as "A Static Generator" ( although it does That too ) - it was for Static-to-High Current Regeneration ✅✅✅ . ( thus, The 3-Layer Water Turbine, The Marx Generator Chain's and The Auto-Filling Accumulator's. ) .. using Crow-Bars Arc so Nicely.! . . . my original thoughts were to use Nuclear Batteries but they don't exactly Store Charges without that little Pluming Mushroom T___T

Can i connect two inverters to make a higher watt inverter is it possible

I was thinking about cylinder design, and besides making composites with graphene, couldn’t graphene ultra capacitors be used as Filler in an O Neil Cylinder? It should have sufficient strength, or you could design it with strength in mind, storing more energy than a battery made out of concrete. Using any other battery chemistry in a cylinder would necessitate it being replaced every so often. - It would be nice to just have a set and forget graphene ultra-capacitor that you replaced every 50 to 100 years. And for the flywheels story, most of the power, that’s just in the material strength.

Got myself A millennium 3 cd20 relay controller ( marketplace 95 euros) ,, I’m nog looking for some super caps ,i have a 33kw 51,2v 646ah 14s200p li-ion battery.. and I’m planning to get a istabreeze I2000 .. and the max out of it ,, any advice for the capacity of the capacitor bank?..gr denny

I'd suggest LTO chemistry cells instead of supercapacitors. They're much cheaper than supercapacitors at present and have much greater energy density. I recently bought a 552Wh (2.3V, 20Ah, 12S) battery for £110. I intend to use it for an instantaneous hot water tap (90°C) for making tea and coffee.

You have a nice place to experiment. Can I draw your attention to something else? Heat batteries that is. Just sand, resistance heating, container and insulator. Use solar panel electricity to heat up the sand up to 500c and use it later to heat the environment

I have made a super capacitor for my car battery, it is cheap, my car has better horse power, and electric gadgets works better. There are many videos doing this.

Thank you so muck 🙏 I'll wait for further episodes, I'm sure You know who is the killer 🤡🙏🙏🙏

Put a super-cap across a battery and you're got a (brief, but damaging) short circuit. Trust me on that.

Please let me know what you think

Can someone help me make a supercap battery to run in parallel ,after my 8S, 24VDC 300Ah lifepo4 pack, so my inverter and solar charge controllers have a chance to shut down at 10.5vdc before one of the lifepo4 cells ,shuts the pack down above 10.5 vdc? In theory. The 8s pack should make it that low, but it never does. Both the inverter and solar charge controller warn to "NEVER DISCONNECT BATTERY FIRST OR UNDER LOAD FIRST". The supercap pack would not need to work long at all. It just needs to handle the high amps of charge/discharge, and to reach 10.5 vdc after lifepo4 shutdown.

It would be very interesting if Tesla would use a bank of super capacitors for taking all the power during regenerative breaking. Then split their battery pack into two sections at 400 volts each. The capacitors would dump their energy into the lowest voltage battery section, then that section would rest while the other section powers the motors. Both batteries would be used in parallel while under hard acceleration. When charging the battery sections would be arranged in series for an 800 volt fast charge. When driving everything is still configured for 400 volts. I wonder if the extra effort would make financial sense.

You could always make the big ass capacitor the guy in Australia made from beer bottles and a 5 gallon bucket but very dangerous in my mind.

i got lost once you strted talking about the dc to dc converter and the switch. Could you go more in deep about it

6:00 Solid state RELAY, not rectifier.

Peukerts law. All to do with internal resistance. Much less of a problem for lithium ion. I've not understood why capacitors haven't been combined with battery tec.

LoL,preslice trees. Varnish with that. LoL

I don't get the need for a DC to DC convert what?

I believe some ev's use super caps with their regen braking.

What is. Joe cell in this. Fusion content

Lots of words here but all this would be much more useful if the ideas were implemented with instruments to show the effect being discussed. I still have yet to see (perhaps I missed it) a light bulb being lit up by any of the devices shown in these videos.

1 question when are your batteries coming out? lol :)

How would this affect the available run time though?

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Where is your Graphene ?????

Hi could I use a microwave capacitor for this or am I being an idiot 😂

A solution for poor Peukert's values.