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Old 11-05-2019, 12:08 PM   #75 (permalink)
redpoint5
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I suppose if you had a massive loss in the cable, you could not start the car...
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Why not have your caps in place of the original battery?
That's my next step... and possibly buy a bigger LiPo battery and shorten the wire run, or put in thicker gauge wire. The difference between my voltage at the battery and at the cars ECU suggests I'm losing too much somewhere in between there. I'll calculate that loss next time so I can properly engineer a solution rather than wing it.
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