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Old 01-04-2009, 02:53 PM   #35 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Blue Bomber Man View Post
Could throw some capacitors in there to allow for some short term high amp draw, and would greatly improve your ability to use regenerative breaking.
I think any capacitor that could hold that kind of charge, (we'll say, 5k watt-minutes?) Would probably be unreasonably expensive. But then again I can't claim to have priced such a thing. I only remember 4 years ago, when I was building up a stereo in my truck, looking at ultra-capacitors for the amplifiers. And there, I was looking at peaks of ~100A for <1 second. Even then prices were sky-high.
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