Recent content by dudadiesel

Just as an update, I picked up some 500 farad ultra capacitors. Although you lose a lot of speed in the charge/discharge going from traditional dielectric capacitors to ultra capacitors, the ultra capacitors are still much faster than a battery will be and the increased capacity should keep its...

When you're talking about someone who is slapping in a 1 or 2 farad capacitor who has a dimming lights problem, no doubt. Circuit City conned me into that back in the day. I then got a power cell and the problem was fixed and I felt it was running much better. I had almost just gone with 2 power...

Some information came from wikipedia, but I wanted to avoid citing that: https://www.tecategroup.com/app_notes/0_Tecate_Group_What%20is%20an%20ultracapacitor.pdf Basically, an ultra capacitor is a capacitor made with some battery materials / partially chemical. If you check that pdf, you can...

Ok, I finally found the chance to go out and get the answer to my question, which was not answered at all here, but did lead to helping me on the next one. So to answer the question, a hybrid capacitor is an ultra capacitor. Ultra capacitor is a generic term for a high capacitance type of...

I am mostly trying to find out the difference between traditional capacitors and hybrid capacitors, which I cannot seem to find in car audio forums. Car audio forms seem to be limited to a more less-tech based mindset of whether they "work" or "do not work." I'll start digging into the physics...

Anyone?

I am looking for some clarification on the advantages or disadvantages of the hybrid capacitors. I see "Capacitors" and then "hybrid Capacitors" for sale. The hybrids tend to be the higher capacity units and cheaper per farad than the "capacitors." I've tried calling a few car audio places and...