I love the "future tense" statements here..

I did it, it's done, get over it, no more whinging, we all get it!, as pointed out i use a Regulator, I was more curious as to what it could do... the capacitors themselves barely even got warm, nor the battery, just the leads...

past tense, that was fun.

future tense, I'll continue using my switching regulator.

in this instance

The caps were empty fresh and brand new, I was curious - i never go over 2.8 (max overcharge voltage)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6nKhkXQ4aU

There

I bought 2 150F super caps from a local supplier in Aus, and really impressive but the 200F from coolshopper08 on ebay some other brand, the capacitor is 30% roughly larger in size and only 50 farads more, so I was not really expecting much difference..

But boy these caps suck 3 - 4x more juice! - after my wires started to smoke (I quickly touch the terminals on and off until i reach 2.7v) i soon realized how much power was being drawn from a 12v lead acid battery!

Since i already melted jumper wires to everything in sight, I decided to make a video and see how powerful this was, so to not damage the 200F cap I only made contact for a few seconds, watch the alligator clip! any longer and I'm sure it would begin to melt....

let's suppose with the bendy technique using a lite-scribe as i posted in the link..


you could use Strips of this stuff and coat a solar powered car with this stuff, with a small several a/h lithium battery for keeping the capacitors  and have the rest of the car coated with these strips  with huge arrays of capacitors, have the solar panels charge just the capacitors and keep the lithium charged...

Lightweight solar powered cars

With this new fancy technology coming along with nano technology, how long before we see nano capacitors?

And your bets please on how much capacity can we really realistically get from a nano carbon tube, nano whatever capacitor in the future... do you think we'll see battery sized capacitors holding twice or fifty times more capacity than your regular lithium batteries we have today?

I see companies working on the lithium battery up to 4x more capacity we have now, but anyone think capacitors (lightweight) are the future in energy? fast charge and discharge use and how many cycles? considerably more than any rechargeable battery... obviously we're not there yet but fingers crossed, i'm all for dumping batteries in favor of capacitor, huge amounts of energy at your finger tips... well for short bursts at least, but anyway.... let's see what happens..


http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/122763-graphene-supercapacitors-are-20-times-as-powerful-can-be-made-with-a-dvd-burner

interesting, but what's your views on batteries v capacitors

a couple of LED's shining down would bring it to life! (white, green, blue namely)

Can i inject an AC signal into an existing AC line? eg a data line?

I've always wondered how they added a frequency to carry data or inject a 48v power line to power an arduino via ethernet.

But, what's the rules, i can inject as many AC frequencies providing it's different into an existing being used AC line?

for example, if i decided to power my house from a 22vac low voltage line around the home, what could you "inject" and how? diodes? timing?

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/130773402015?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

I've bought 3 of these so far, they've all worked flawlessly so far!, so i bought 2 from 1 more guy for 12 bucks and this for 8 bucks, the original ones i paid $69 (still is!) and that was for a clone from jaycar electronics.. so i thought i'd try  $18 shield, it worked well, as i said already, no complaints here so i bought from 2 different guys the same identical boards except 1 guy with a higher rating wanted a dollar more, so i gave him 2 and bought 1 extra and the 8 shield guy just 8 bucks lol

Ethernet Shield W5100 For Arduino 328 UNO mega 2560

   US $9.07
Approximately AU $8.74
   



How are they getting so cheap?

how would you go about reading the caps lock data on a leonardo?

 http://techblog.vsza.hu/posts/Leaking_data_using_DIY_USB_HID_device.html

cool, i'm just waiting on the the logic chips to arrive to have to have some fun

74LS81

can't find any info on it, got a datasheet?

I have several flip flops (d type), and soon some and/or/nand (only one that are schmitt triggered) gates and I hope to create myself 8 bits of memory out of pure logic gates and use Arduino to retrieve / store

i'm a long way but you have to start somewhere lol