I have been playing with a couple of Lego solar panels and the Capacitors. http://bobfay.users5.50megs.com/Solar.htm
The label on the capacitor claims a value of 1 farad. Is this value possible
in such a small component? I always thought a 1 farad capacitor would need a
huge plate area. I am from the old school of vacuum tubes. I will say the
cap unit does a great job of supplying a nice regulated 2.5 volts. I am
really impressed with this unit.
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Bob Fay
rfay@we.mediaone.net
(...) Yeah it's for real. There's been alot of discussion about the capacitor on here recently, just do a news search. (24 years ago, 1-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)