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The newest issue of PBB has an article about this new (expensive) capacitor start system.
Basically there is NO start batt , just a capacitor , that is charged from the house bank for 30 seconds and Wham, 2500 CCA of starter juice available.
Should start anything from sport fish to a sailboat with a lawn tractor engine as power. All for 11 lbs.
To my mind it becomes cost effective when one thinks of all the stuff that is no longer needed.
No rotary switches , sized to carry amps to start a diesel in the cold.
Only one charge system , the house , no solenoids , merge wiring , no transistor seperation gadgets, no rotary switches to parallel .
The unit could be quite close to the engine so those long runs of heavy 04 cable would no longer exist.
Best the batts could be out of the heat of the engine space , and wiring from the house set could be fused .
Looks like a win - win,
as soon as the Chinese knock them off for $100 each retail the start battery may become as obsolete as a start crank handle.
www.osimicronpowerpack.com
Basically there is NO start batt , just a capacitor , that is charged from the house bank for 30 seconds and Wham, 2500 CCA of starter juice available.
Should start anything from sport fish to a sailboat with a lawn tractor engine as power. All for 11 lbs.
To my mind it becomes cost effective when one thinks of all the stuff that is no longer needed.
No rotary switches , sized to carry amps to start a diesel in the cold.
Only one charge system , the house , no solenoids , merge wiring , no transistor seperation gadgets, no rotary switches to parallel .
The unit could be quite close to the engine so those long runs of heavy 04 cable would no longer exist.
Best the batts could be out of the heat of the engine space , and wiring from the house set could be fused .
Looks like a win - win,
as soon as the Chinese knock them off for $100 each retail the start battery may become as obsolete as a start crank handle.
www.osimicronpowerpack.com
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