Mega Raizin car performance booster.

I have just read an article saying that Tesla have bought a Canadian battery maker who in turn bought Maxwell, a supercapacitor and battery manufacturer with a new revolutionary dry-electrode technology. Maybe these are a Chinnese knockoff of said Maxwell Super Duper Dry Caps.. lol

“Instills a sense of realness”. Love it.

This was raizin my expectations...not. "Let's void the warranty" -enthusiastic head nod Yes the scroll inside of the dry caps contains a message in the form of an IOU for an actual capacitor.

Michael Thompson

Put it across the main battery and it will glow orange and get all melty!

Nani Isobel

I'm tempted to try that.

Big Clive

Hence the dried up caps! Got it!

Jeff Groves

Hmm, don't think this would improve the battery pack in my Tesla model 3.

George Cohn

Well, it is a MegaRaizen, not MegaGrape...

Matthew Dickey

i wonder what would happen if you put electorate in those dead capacitors

God 420

100.000% snake oil, more likely. There are some videos on YouTube where people start cars with a bunch of 1,500 F super-capacitors, but that's still only a fraction of the capacity of a car battery, so 0.02 F isn't going to get you very far :-) (ok, batteries and capacitors have different discharge behaviour, so direct comparisons are a bit questionable, but...)

Hilarious when you worked out the caps were duds! Question is, if those components had been real and working, what would a device like that really do? (ignoring the voltage circuit thing) Anything, or is it 100% snake oil?

mikenco

These products usually make an effort to present themselves as being technically plausible, but hard to disprove. They often use hints of known functional systems like the high energy capacitors used in audio systems to reduce voltage drop during current peaks by acting as a local reservoir.

Big Clive

Thanks BC! I just don't understand how products like this can be successful. Someone competent enough to install it should be able to figure it out.

Nani Isobel

I can just see the electrolyte supply running out on the production line and the machines keep going. There was probably an alarm, turned off.

Nani Isobel

They surely must be repurposing a batch of failed production caps, it would make no sense to produce a unit missing only the cheapest raw material. Likely they just found a dubious use for somebody's fuck up.

The Tinkering Shed

I'm curious what those capacitors would be if they did have electrolyte added. Is leaving out the electrolyte really that much of a cost savings?

George Dorn

It’s a kit, you have to supply your own electrolytic.... 😆

Lostngone

The Chinese Yuan (aka CNY or RMB) uses the same currency symbol as Japanese Yen, but is worth abouth 1/15th the value - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renminbi

Kean

I'm off to work so sadly will have to wait till I get there

Neil Tonks

Another great excuse to be woken up with a Big Clive patreon post.

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