Thanks for making a simple clean detailed video on caps without a bunch of extra garbage. I have a six pack of these set up in my Tundra for my sub amps. Same way no balancing circuits. Charging system has more that sufficient management of the electrical system and maintaining the caps.

Good job on video, thank god u didn't put me to sleep like the other people who over explain with un necessary Junk ! You kept me awake and interested and u taught this old dawg some actual useful information !

I am 3.5 mins into this video and it is a real gem. The only two things are that the audio is not great, but I got used to it. The other is that the white board is too small to be seen. Other than that, I cannot understand why the channel does not have more subscibers. The presenter is excellent!

Very good! That was one of the best videos explaining this topic

For those wondering about sizing banks for automotive systems, consider that Joules are Watts x Seconds. While the 500F bank has over 51,000 Joules of energy storage, we are interested in 14.4V - 12V which is only 1,440J or 1,440 Watts for one second. Because we are trying to supplement the battery and alternator, we aren't looking for an ultracap bank to provide long-term power supply but instead provide transient voltage regulation. As such, a 500F bank can regulate about 1kW of actual demand (not amp rated, but actual clamped power). SPL systems will use several banks.

I'm interested in using them primarily in Solar set ups ,I was looking for a video that explains what, an ultra-capacitor is and how to implement them safely. (for a mate who wants to power his off grid house with solar, when he moves to Spain). yea very informative , concise and well made video. good work. thanks. Ps first discovered ultra caps on a video about building a stun gun! it was literally lethal , so safety with these bad boys is a must

I find a basic VSR (Voltage Sensitive Relay) works well. I connect the 12v sensor line to the positive on the ultracap bank. I put a large resistor across the VSR isolate terminals - IE between Common and Normally open. I have the resistors on a decent heat sink. On connecting the battery or turning on the isolator I have between the bank and the 12v high current supply the VSR is open so the current is limited and the bank voltage starts to rise. Once it meets the voltage on the 12v feed the contact closes and shorts out the resistor giving direct connection to my audio supply line. I also use a high current relay connected to the accessory switched 12v that closes when the car is in use. I have an override switch SPST that connects the relay to the battery 12v if I want to use my audio system without having the engine running. It is wired as a latching relay that is interrupted by a small relay connected to a car alarm armed output. As soon as I leave and arm the alarm the bank is isolated along with the VSR so it doesn't become a vampire load. I used a two position isolator so in the event of a flat battery I can turn the isolator to the second position and this gives a direct connection back to the cranking battery so I can start the car. I monitor the bank and VSR relays with a nice little digital voltmeter and LED so I can see what is happening. The above setup sounds a bit complex but its actually very simple. A 200A fuse (TD) protects against a nasty short but so far it has worked really well. The bank is almost always fully charged anyway as I have glued a 20w solar panel to the sunroof shade. This is always pulled across and I cant forget as the sunshade when pulled across pushes a microswitch that is connected to one of the alarm trigger zones. The alarm gives a warning chirp if any input is active so I can never forget. With the solar panel across both my batteries stay healthy and on a very sunny day will actually charge both batteries at about 200ma.... !! Just don't forget your Schottky inline blocking diodes and a plain old 1N4001 diode across any relay coils !! Those large relays will hit you like a train with the back EMF when they are disconnected ! I can personally vouch for the punch they can give you. I hope the above gives some idea's or help to someone considering using them. These banks are VERY useful. Please PAY ATTENTION to Richards safety advice. These packs store a huge amount of charge and if your careless they can really bite you ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Great advice and safety video Richard :-) 👍 👍 👍 👍 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Most informative and helpful tutorial on Super Capacitors these thing are gong to change the way we live.

It can work as a 943 mah (Calculated) battery with unlimited charge cycles as it stores electrical charges in electrical fields,whereas batteries store charges in chemical reactions

Great video! Just my two cents - When I work on my vehicle, and my 500k capacitor needs to be topped up, I use a brake light bulb as my current limiter, in place of the in-line fuse. It will glow brightly at first, since the capacitor is mostly a short circuit. But soon the bulb will start to dim down as the capacitor charge increases, soon matching the voltage of the battery. Once the bulb seems to be very dim I remove it and immediately replace with the in-line fuse. This works faster in my opinion than using a higher power resistor. It also gives a visual as to the charge progress.

watched for the steel tape measure measuring current ! :-)

Dear friend, Richard, thank you for your attention. In some videos on KZfaq, it is shown that they receive 300 V output from 8 super capacitors, and some videos show tens of thousands of V output and arc from hand-made capacitors. This is what kind of setup with electronic equipment is necessary to receive a high voltage arc. Thanks

Great Video ! Super informative. Even though I want to build one, It is super expensive here in the Philippines.

what find totally amazing about maxwell UC's is 5+ years ago the market was so saturated with both new and used surplus UC's that the manufacturers had quit producing new units and is was not uncommon to see them selling for $10 a piece or sometimes even less then one guy starts posting youtube videos showing how he was able to successfully replace his car's battery with ultracaps and within a year the market went from massive surplus to critical shortage causing the prices to increase to the point where at times I've seen used ones selling for as much as $100 each and even now the premade ultracap poser banks are selling for as high as $800 each. I always think of the ultracap situation whenever I hear someone say that one person by themselves can't effect change or make a difference......

I use 2 banks 500 farads each wire to a bank of 80 ah of LTO lithium - works like charm!!!

thanks for the info, this helps a lot. please consider a better mic tho, had to crank the volume.

The pics at the end aren't final products, but are intended to show some of the ways I have mounted and fused ultracapacitor banks.

You can use a 12 volt incandescent bulbs in series with the caps for charging them also. Resistance is high when bulb is lit and drops and charges cap faster as bulb goes out and becomes zero ohms. They will charge faster this way. I used this technique on 450 volt DC power supply I made to charge flash capacitors from mains with a rectifier and 100 watt bulb in series. It worked perfectly and the bulb dissipates less heat during on charge cycle.

Very well explained! Thank you!

Being that the supercacitors are connected in parallel to the car battery another 100A fuse is needed at that end (eg while disconnecting the capacitor bank or current flows towards the capacitor bank).

Yeah, you're an audio guy--flubbed up and said Hybrid Audio! lol Team Hybrids here!! Thanks for the info!

Thank you for sharing valuable information

A PTC fuse with a resistor in parallel and maybe series would be very efficient for charging with a more constant current

Thank you for your previous answer. Is there a way of knowing how much current the cap's can handle for a quick discharge? It seems to me that speakers require an inordinate amount of power to do their thing! Fortunately my purpose is for an e-bike 30aH battery pack.1000 watt bub motor. Not powerful magnets!

You mentioned regenerative braking - does anyone do that, commercially? I designed an electric drive system on paper a while back, and came up with that idea myself. The regen circuit could be designed much more efficient at a higher voltage if it directly fed a capacitor bank. Then a buck/boost charger could drain the caps to charge the main batteries, and/or supplement drive power during high acceleration. Haven't heard of anyone doing it though. Of course, back then electric car battery voltage was considered 'high voltage' at 48 or 72 volts.. lol..

Any chance of you making a video describing the pros and cons to switching the car battery to an ultracapacitor bank and showing how you would do it and maintain it?

You should really add an overvoltage protection circuit across each capacitor in the bank. Differences in the manufacturing process can lead to higher voltages across some of the capacitors.

Thansk for this great explaination. I hv a question, do i need to put 2 fuses before and after the capacitor

For my ebike that is.

A rules of thumb for video recording, never face direct sunlight...help in video quality.

This video is superb. Thankyou very much for posting.

Your Explanation is great ,,but the Microphone is located it in the wrong location and is very hard ,,to lListing ,,

Excellent video presentation but in the future I Would advise you to use a wireless lapel microphone so that your voice remains louder than your room's echos. Here your echos are in danger of making your audio unintelligible. Looking forward to more videos from you!

Thanks so much for the info man!! Quick question, would I be able to charge a bank of 6 3v cells with a 6s rc batt charger? The bank has balancing boards too

I see, so you are the guy responsible for these house shaking, windows rattling passing cars playing music (base, mostly) at full volume! I am thinking about the ways I could "audio frequency RF bomb" them and blow theirs audio PAs. Those super-caps in their system would just be very helpful, delivering necessary momentary power. 😁. Joking aside, great content; thank you. Thinking about other uses of these wonderful devices in applications where quick re-charging and huge momentary power delivery is needed as a supplement to the battery.

Ive wondered that with an ultracap's extremely low esr, and extremely high capacitance, i wonder how theyll act when used in band pass filters..? Seems like theyd totally eliminate designated frequencies and not put any back emf or noise into the audio signal.. and with duty cycles so high theyd last forever in those situations. You wouldnt need to have the huge deals you had here but never heard of anybody using em in those circuits.. or maybe i just havent seen that yet and is already a thing..

Hi I'm trying to charge an ultracapacitor Bank. I got the Deadshot on the multimeter and blew my 50 amp fuse. When you said I could use a current limiting charger, couldn't I just use a 12 vdc wall charger with like 300 milliamp output?

Caling the seperator or insulator film for dielectric Dielectric is the insulating capasety of the materiale ..

Thank you for your very professional presentation. I noticed you don’t use circuits to balance the capacitors the way they are offered in eBay. Could you explain the reason for not using them, and when would you use them?

I have a 72v Gem car and want to increase the length of charge /discharge (run time) on the vehicle now it has 6 lead acid 12v batteries and I am making a 12v supplemental 6 panel solar array to charge during the daytime hours. what type of system do you recommend to supplement with?

Very informative video! Thanks.

Hey,... that's pretty smart. I wonder if I could use one of those as a regen brake power dump, and then I could use the stored charge as a 10-30 second turbo/boost to get me off the line far quicker. (not to mention at TOP SPEED!) :-)

The bikes battery pack is a 14.4 kw

The controller on the bike is 750amp

A lightbulb is the ideal current-limiter..(or several ones in parallel)

Why aren't you using balancing circuit boards between the caps so each Cap gets an equal charge voltage? Also, what is the current leak over time? I heard you say after several months they were at 10 volts so what was the starting charge voltage?

I have a 350 amp alternator that puts out 15 volts cold then when hot its 14.5 volts. Can I use the 2.7 volt 3000 farad caps on my electrical. I need enough to power my Taramps md8000.1 amplifier. Also can I run them with my two 12 volt lead acid batteries? All of my power wire is 4/0.

I see people putting them under the hood. Is this viable, or should they be mounted close to the amplifier(s)?

I keep blowing a 500 amp amp fuse with my uSTART ultra cap would you ever condone not fusing that outflow wire from the ultra cap? It’s a 1/0 wire the uSTART is a cheap ultra cap that has been recalled previously for having the cells inside the ultra cap get shorted out? But watching this video if they are all in parallel like the box shape looks or the 6 pack how could they ever short out it would always be short if the entire ultra capacitor cell is conductive unless I misheard you and you meant the buss bar terminal posts coming from the top? Or just every part of the cell is conductive? Or do I just have to much current draw is there a way to limit that current draw per amplifier? If I connected separate wires it would all lead back that one initial inrush wire anyway right? Let me know your thoughts thank you!

Thanks you made it easy to understand

Nice video, easy to understand. Thanks !!

You can charge it by a DC welder

Good lecture. Thank you.

Good vid... 1 thing, resistance doesn't add in parallel. :D

I'm sure these are fine in many applications but for car audio I'll just stick to an H/O alternator and good battery because it works just fine.

You left out voltage balancing between capacitors. As soon as you connect ultra capacitors in series, they exhibit voltage imbalances across each individual capacitor, where you could easily end up exceeding the 2.7V rating and damage it. I tried connecting them the way you show but had to give up and go for a balancing board, that uses MOSFETs to shunt power and protect each cap from over voltage.

Dude, how many topics did you covered....thema was Safety Tips and Tricks, unless you forgot... Looks like you have just started a pilot episode of a tv series about ultracaps dude!

Please could capacitors damage the alternator after it just crank the engine so of course it well drop below the 13v ? ie: because of highly charging current to recharge it. I have V6 engine and 180A alternator. Sorry for my language

Great video. My mind is wanting to use this in a solar application to extend battery an reduce draw from motors and pumps. Any recommendations or videos to check out? Thanks subscribed

awesome video I have a Honda with a 250 amp alt a group 31 xs power in front with a group 41 in the rear. My stereo when I use it pulls about 150 amps at max my car like 45 amps with ac on etc. I also have air suspention that uses a air zenith ob2 compressor that pulls like 60 amp when filling the tank. That takes about 4-5 min it starts out fast then my volts drop slightly and it takes longer to fill. Sorry for the long would I benefit from using like a xs power super cap bank? thanks

I didn't hear him talk about the accessory kit for Maxwells that ensure the caps remain balanced when charging. If one take more charge than the others, and they therefore are imbalanced, you will potentially destroy the one that's imbalanced.

very excellent presentation! but the audio needs improvement. but this widens my understanding to ultra capacitors. could be useful as a motorcycle battery alternative but for cars and trucks i dont think my dad agree to replace his batteries. could be useful to jump start a vehicle tho

But if you're fuse for 300a on a power wire, a maxifuse won't go that high. So basically just fuse along according to the wire/load?

I wish I could read the writing on the wall!

Great video!!!!!

i use and recomend, thank you

Great video!

What a video. BRAVO!!!!

Have shown some bunch of Ultra Capacitors in rear side here and there, you haven’t mentioned what for you put them in use, either in place of fossile fuel or just for support of alternater for starting of your vehicle. Pl explain whether, they can be used as fuel supplier in place of DC batteries, ( Lithium Ion Fe). Hope, you explain through your other video. Thanks.

compressors are these cool thingys that level audio bro.. check em out.. usually built into video editing software too..

good video, pretty disappointed with the lack of response to comments I make through Utube, 99%, what a waste of time. anyway, could a car stereo amp be used to amp up anything other than a car stereo amp? maybe one of the types of electric motor. some type of modification? amped up ultracapacators with fork truck motor? lots of ideas

Great video, sound is not as clear as it could be, though.

Can you post a video of how to actually install them in the car hooked up to the battery?

So how many volts of super capacitor batteries as a battery pack is ok to add to the bike

Sorry but why would you pull the caps out before a car service? I didn’t understand why

Hey buddy, my 2021 Zero Sr electric motorcycle has a 14.4 kw battery pack, how many volts of super capacitor batteries as a battery pack do I need so it’s safe

Are xs power super capacitors any good or are they garbage?

temperature is really important, though I would be worried about that in a solar application

WHAT KIND OF CRANKING TIME CAN YOU GET. WILL THEY WORK ON A V8 DIESEL

Thank you for your info.

If you're still around: If you charge a 500F/16.2v super capacitor bank at 2 amps for 1 hour is there a total of 2 amps in the cap? If short circuited would the burst be 2 amps or would it somehow be more that that? I realize it would not be fully charged after 1 hour.

The heat from his charging resistors introduces even more inefficiencies as a passive, nonreactive load. It would be better to use circuitry to control the current more efficiently with less energy loss through heat production, unless it's winter time and you could use the heat to add to what's already in your house.

Can you explain how to make a Supercapacitor battery bank 48V to drive a 48v 1.5kw motor

What is each battery volts and AMPs, how many battery required for 48v, 40ah ??

I would like to know what the bus material is and what the screw in the cap is for. God show, much enjoyed.

I have connected 20 Maxwell 2.7V super capacitors in series and I am going to spark, but with each spark the voltage decreases a little from the capacities. The total charger of these 20 capacitors is 55V DC. How should I connect them together that 300 output voltage?

Good stuff... I currently have Dyna-batt manufacturers ID 5575B its a 12V, dry cell battery, 16amps hrs, and it is 4 years old. I bought it for the weight savings and at $159, it was the best option. Now, the CCA on it is around 280 and I live in NE and on days where its under 50 degrees, the car struggles to start. I want to maintain the weight savings and I like the idea of a supercapacitor. What kind and how many would I need to help boost this battery? A schematic, or links to what I can buy would be awesome.

Would this be safe to use in a car with auto start-stop and lots of computerized technology? With city driving and the AC and music cranked that's a lot of starting and stopping while drawing a lot of current. Would this constant charging and discharging of the caps be bad for the car's electronics or the amps? I'm making a build for SQ and have 100w x4 for fronts and 400w x2 for subs. I have a Golf mk7 with Blue Motion tech.

Nice

Does anybody know how to connect up those with flat terminals? they look the same, except they dont have the screw threaded terminal.

Can the ultracaps be used in an alternating current system? Thank you for the video and useful information.

Can I use a 12 volt halogen light bulb as a resistor to charge super caps?

So why don't you need to have them close to the battery

Can I use capacitors as a ev battery supplrment? How would I wire this? Can I regen it using the vehicle controllers regen? How would I wire that? Resistance etc. My EV controller and engine runs of 18~96V, 72V being the "nominal" 0~100A with 260A peaks. For now. The battery (prismatic lithium) is rated for 100A continious discharge. How would/could I implement Capacitors to improve the EV performance and maintain that 72V Volt/100~260Amp discharge rate without draining the battery when climbing hills?

What would be better for going around and starting my yard tractors, 6 2.7v 350f in series or 1 or 2 16v 5000f in parallel?

Hey Richard, thanks for the easy to understand, helpful video. I'm new to this and had 2 questions 1. For a bank used in car audio, does the negative post get grounded to chassis/frame like a battery? 2. If I had 2 banks, would I run each in parallel with battery and in parallel with each other? Thanks so much for your time

People also start cars with them. How well do they perform at minus 10 F, where batteries need help?

What would you think of the simplest balancing circuit, which is a zener across each cap? Cheap zeners that I could find are rated 2.5 volts, 500 mA. In the app I have in mind, the charging time is of no significance. Hence I can limit the charging current to 1/2 amp. I can also maintain 14 volts across the 5S string of caps.

If I hooked a 50 fared capacitor to a 100ah lifepo4 battery with a 100amp bms would it overload it charging the capacitor if the capacitor was empty when hooked up?

Can you charge and discharge ultracapacitors simultaneously. For example you use your phone whilst it is plugged in charging?