Power & Energy

Forum Capacitor to charge then power Leds

Actions

Forum Thread Details

Replies 8 replies
Subscribers 289 subscribers
Views 1406 views
Users 0 members are here

Related

Capacitor to charge then power Leds

Former Member over 12 years ago

I have a bunch of large capacitors and a solar cell charger. my question is there a way to charge up the capacitor then have it power leds?

Thanks

Brian

Parents

Problemchild over 12 years ago

Yes but I think you will need to tell the readers what size capacitors and chager you have.
To be honest the energy stored in Capacitors isn't that great you would need a true monster to drive an LED for say an over night light.
If it was that easy the cheapo solar cell Lights for the garden would get rid of the batteries as they are a pain to charge propperly
Cancel
Vote Up 0 Vote Down

Sign in to reply

Cancel
Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to Problemchild

Thanks John, I will check in the morning I do electronic recycling and wanted to use them . I think they are like 14000 mfd each and have maybe 20 of them . will let you know
Cancel
Vote Up 0 Vote Down

Sign in to reply

Cancel

Reply

Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to Problemchild

Thanks John, I will check in the morning I do electronic recycling and wanted to use them . I think they are like 14000 mfd each and have maybe 20 of them . will let you know
Cancel
Vote Up 0 Vote Down

Sign in to reply

Cancel

Children

Problemchild over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

um sound quite nice and theywould drive an LED for awhile 1057.contentimage_3.png
Cancel
Vote Up 0 Vote Down

Sign in to reply

Cancel
Problemchild over 12 years ago in reply to Problemchild

Personally though I think I would make a spot welder with them to weld like battery terminals and the likes.
Or at least fun stuff like imploding cans !!
Cancel
Vote Up 0 Vote Down

Sign in to reply

Cancel