Found a good discussion over here: http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/221531/supercapacitors-as-car-batteries
Basically the caps work great in conjunction with lead acid batteries for energy storage and power conditioning, and in hybrid cars. They will only crank a car for about 5 sec. Good power density, but poor energy density, and expensive. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraBattery On Feb 28, 2017 5:53 AM, "Curt Raymond via Mercedes" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Yeahbut, its not cold where you are. You're barely straining the battery, > when its -10F those little nothings would barely run the glowplugs... > > -Curt > > From: archer75--- via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Cc: "arche...@embarqmail.com" <arche...@embarqmail.com> > Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 11:11 PM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Interesting thread on possible replacement for group > 49 battery > > I was impressed with how a 230 CCA $20.00 lawn tractor battery started the > '83 300D so easily. I was going to buy another and run two of them since > the car doesn't get used much and I couldn't see the point in have a $100+ > battery die of old age. Problem was that the battery tray would almost but > not quite seat both of them. Being able to keep right on starting and > driving if one battery died would be a big advantage IMO. > > Gerry > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Jaime Kopchinski wrote: > > Another solution in search of a problem.... > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:08 PM Meade Dillon via Mercedes < > > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > > 31P? > > > > > > > > > http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/diesel-discussion/ > 384394-anybody-tried-group-31p-battery-place-our-group-49-a.html > > > > > > ------------- > > > Max > > > Charleston SC > > > _______________________________________ > > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > > -- > > Jaime Kopchinski > > http://www.jaimekop.com/ > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > -- > arche...@embarqmail.com <arche...@embarqmail.com> > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
