What happens when you wire up 16 capacitors? Sixteen 2500V 40uF capacitors to be precise… [Lemming] calls it the Box ‘O Bangs. Theoretically it outputs 4000A at 2500V for a split second. They bought ...

There was a recent news item regarding a teenager's project to use a super capacitor as a quick-charging energy storage device. The primary claim is that this could be used to fully charge a phone in ...

Designers often use chargers with flyback topologies to quickly charge energy-storage capacitors (references 1 and 2). In a flyback topology, the energy transfer takes place only when the charger’s ...