Found in a toy - "Lithium capacitor"?

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Razor Concepts

Joined Oct 7, 2008
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I took apart a toy RC car and found it was powered by a "Lithium Capacitor". Does anyone have more information on these?

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Is this something special, or just a normal lithium battery that was just packaged in the same casing as a capacitor?

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Tonyr1084

Joined Sep 24, 2015
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On what are you basing this on being a lithium cap? Not sure what that number is. Could be a date code; March 27, 2020.

Admittedly, caps have the black stripe (can be other colors too) indicating the negative lead of an electrolytic cap.
 

ThePanMan

Joined Mar 13, 2020
773
Definitely Lithium. But I can't read the entire marking on it. Does look like a cap though. Like Tony said, the positive marking is not consistent with electrolytic capacitors. First time I've ever heard of a Li-Cap. But then again I'm not well versed in all things electronic.
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scorbin1

Joined Dec 24, 2019
103
Apparantly that's what some are calling super caps. However I have found some somewhat conflicting information. Some say a SuperCap is basically just a capacitor with the cathode of a lithium battery, but some state it is indeed a battery+cap hybrid. I don't know, maybe no difference between the two. Without a Farad rating printed on it though, I think Irving may have nailed it.
 
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