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  • Date Created: 9 Oct 2023 9:36 PM Date Created
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Experimenting with Supercapacitors - Winner's Announcement

rscasny
rscasny
9 Oct 2023

What is Experimenting with Supercapacitors?

Supercapacitors, also known as ultracapacitors and electric double layer capacitors (EDLCs), are high-capacity capacitors with capacitance values greater than common types of capacitors such as electrolytic, ceramic, paper, etc. They are commonly used as energy storage and delivery devices that offer millions of times more capacitance than traditional capacitors.

Experimenting with Supercapacitors is an element14 community competition of electronics engineers where the participants had the opportunity to experiment with Cornell Dubilier's supercapacitors and compete for some great prizes.

The element14 Community would like to thank our sponsor, Cornell Dubilier, for providing the supercapacitor kits and support.

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imageGrand Prize: Gough Lui 
What’s Super about Supercapacitors? – Part 7: Quite a lot, actually! 

My series of blogs “What’s Super about Supercapacitors?” is exactly what my project sought to learn. It was an exploration of how supercapacitors can be used, how to treat them properly, why they’re so special, and how they differ from ordinary batteries and capacitors.

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imageRunner Up Prize: misaz 
Supercapacitor Backup Storage for Low-Power Compact Sensors

imageOne of my goals for this competition was to provide a guide for selecting supercapacitors. To do so, I wanted to experiment with measuring capacitance of the supercapacitors in the kit. Then I wanted to evaluate how effective the kit's supercaps were. Are there use cases where one of them had a benefit and are there different use cases when the other capacitors are advantageous? Finally, I wanted to evaluate and characterize the leakage of supercapacitors and evaluate a supercapacitor on Solar Sensor Node project I had previously designed.

Check Out The Experiments

imageFinisher Prize Winners

The Finisher's prize is for any participant who completed the required introductory blog and final blog that described their experiments and what they did. For this competition, element14 chose the Circuit Playground Express as the finisher's prize. It is a great little kit for your child or friend as an introduction to electronics and programming, Microsoft MakeCode block-based and more.  

BigG - Super flashes with super caps  dougw - Super Capacitor Meter 

JWx - Supercapacitor energy storage system

redcharly - Irrigation monitor using LoRa
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Judges

We'd like to thank Don Bertke and Annie Lavallée for judging the Experimenting with Supercapacitors Challenge! Their input on the projects was invaluable to our final decisions.

Top Member: DAB
Don spent 35 years in the aerospace industry working on many advanced projects. His range of experience covers nearly every scientific field and most ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum. He has a very broad interest and knowledge in science with extensive analysis in image, multispectral and hyper-spectral analysis. He has also worked on a wide range of embedded computer applications, including integrated search and rescue systems.

Member: anniel747 
Entering the exciting electronics world at 7 as a hobbyist and a lifetime in the aerospace and defence electronics R&D I now have my own full time home business with a well equipped workshop.

Resources

  • Supercapacitor Technical Guide
  • Glossary of Supercapacitor
  • Supercapacitor FAQs
  • Supercapacitor Comparison
  • Product Compliance
  • Supercapacitor Technical Presentation
  • Supercapacitor Cells
  • Hybrid LIC Supercapacitors
  • Supercapacitor Coin Cells

imageAbout the Sponsor

Cornell Dubilier is a privately held company headquartered in Liberty, South Carolina. Cornell Dubilier is a technology leader and manufacturer of high-performance film, electrolytic and mica capacitors used in demanding medtech, defense & aerospace, and industrial electrification applications.

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  • flyingbean
    flyingbean over 1 year ago in reply to BigG

    Hi BigG:  Design is one thing and application is another thing. Every project here is amazing.

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  • flyingbean
    flyingbean over 1 year ago

    Congratulations for all the winners and practitioners. Thanks for all the projects you have done. 

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  • BigG
    BigG over 1 year ago

    Congratulations to Gough Lui and misaz 

    Worthy winners for sure.

    Prize or no prize, I certainly got loads out of this design challenge and I too learnt a great deal about how to use supercapacitors in an application, which I tried to share with others.

    Thanks element14 and Cornell Dubilier for the experience.

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  • genebren
    genebren over 1 year ago

    Congratulations to the winners and challengers in this competition!  A lot of great blogs and experiments were developed through the course of this competition. Well done all!

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    kmikemoo over 1 year ago

    Congratulations to Gough Lui and misaz .  Great projects!

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