• @[email protected]
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    818 months ago

    But capacitors aren’t batteries. Batteries store chemical energy. Capacitors store electrical potential energy. Electronically they behave much differently.

    • Em Adespoton
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      248 months ago

      Yes they do… including not holding a charge when the differential drops too far.

      The real wins are in battery-backed capacitors. Charge the caps fast, then let them keep the batteries topped up.

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      8 months ago

      Only for certain types of capacitors. In practice they can overlap quite a bit, especially with common aluminium electrolytic capacitors (these form & dissolve complex aluminium oxide & hydroxide layers on the plates).