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Originally Posted by Enki
Yes I have thought about that, but I'm short on room and I doubt that the cap bank would make things significantly better, as the set of 650 caps I have will have a total capacitance of 108.3 farads, or a voltage drop of 5.17@ 560 amps of draw.
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Okay I know you're looking at the numbers and it doesn't look like it adds up. I did that too, and didn't think this would work. If you watch the videos though you'll see that the wimpy 58.3F pack is capable of starting a 1NZ-FE engine starting with less than 11V. The Maxwell caps don't have an extraordinarily low ESR either. What I would conclude from that is that a 108.3F bank should be able to start your 2.3L low compression ratio engine, and a small battery would keep it topped up at a sufficient voltage to do so for at least a month.
I think this probably has to do with the fact that the starter usually only has something like 7V to work with so tiny capacitors giving it a 8V jolt is a massive improvement.