The 100s-of-millions of lead-acid starting batteries in cars would be surprised at that......My understanding is that lead acid batteries do but like high current draw.
Gavin, did you ever determine if the Caps are Maxwell? How about your use of your capacitors to help you start the motor? I guess that is the primary end result of all your efforts here, Go to Maxwell's youtube videos to get some hookup information that they have with their Capacitor hybred units to help start diesel engines on big trucks. I found them to be helpful. Maxwell's Ultracapacitor-Based Engine Start Module - http://www.maxwell.com/esm/ .Hi, I live on a boat in London and im completely off grid. Ive recently bought 6 3000F 2.7v Maxwell super caps from ebay that are wired in series to give 16.2v capacity. This bank is wired in parallel with my 550ah battery bank. The thing is i bought the caps used and they are plain silver and unbranded. the seller has good reviews and said that the reason they were unbranded was because they were part of a much larger bank. I have not found any other unbranded maxwells on the internet. My question is how do i test them? I only have basic multi meters and a DC clamp meter. The caps are in the system and are accepting voltage. Infact there was a hell of a spark when I connected them to the batteries. Should of probably used a resistor to get them up to voltage.
Also will the supper capacitors cause the Alternator or Solar charger to not function properly owing to the reduced resistance of the capacitors vs a lead acid battery?
In 7 days, it will be 1 year since Gavin logged in at this site. There is a fair chance he will not answer you.Gavin, did you ever determine if the Caps are Maxwell?