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What is a Lithium-ion capacitor?

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by rpaddock

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For anyone that wants to see a real data sheet:
Nominal Voltage: 4.0V High Power and Energy Densities Cycle Life > 50K Cycles Capacitance Range: 10F-1200Farads
https://abracon.com/product-lineup/frequency-control-timing-...
Note that the original data sheets said that these could be wave soldered. ABSOLETLY NOT. Even hand soldering they must be treated with respect, a lot of respect.
One of the major problems with these is there a minimal voltage that they must not go below. Their life gets shortened. I've never seen data on how much.
To my knowledge Li-Ion Capacitors were first introduced to the market by Taiyo-Yuden in 2010. They are no longer in this market. I wrote a blog about it back then:
http://blog.softwaresafety.net/2010/11/introducing-lithium-i...

by SoftTalker

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Large, charged capacitors are pretty frightening. Batteries too, but their discharge rate is limited to the speed of the chemical reaction.

by supertroop

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Dumb question but I though capacitors store energy and not power?

by mrDmrTmrJ

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Let's say you want to make a hybrid car lighter-weight. Where is this useful?
Power density and cycle life are truly impressive. Energy density is super low

by LorenPechtel

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And no mention of the self discharge rate.

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