After reading https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=72162 it seems that supercapacitors simply do not last that long...
... or is it that it's being design-abused? Did Fluke mess up on this design?
Supercapacitors/EDLCs used as memory storage maintainers are presumptively used so that the cost/annoyance of swapping batteries are done away with. As a capacitor it should have long charge/discharge endurance, though supercapacitors not as much as a regular capacitor, but does it have significantly larger cycle counts compared to a, say, LiFePO4 battery?
Compare it to those tiny leakbomb Varta or other brand 3.6V NiCd/NiMH batteries used frequently on old motherboards versus an EDLC, which lasts longer before they become unusable?
Are there other devices that frequently have their EDLCs fail? I don't have a Fluke DMM and don't know if I have devices with EDLCs... I did extract a small EDLC (0.047F) from some device and it still seems to work, so they're not extremely fragile AFAIK...
... or is it that it's being design-abused? Did Fluke mess up on this design?
Supercapacitors/EDLCs used as memory storage maintainers are presumptively used so that the cost/annoyance of swapping batteries are done away with. As a capacitor it should have long charge/discharge endurance, though supercapacitors not as much as a regular capacitor, but does it have significantly larger cycle counts compared to a, say, LiFePO4 battery?
Compare it to those tiny leakbomb Varta or other brand 3.6V NiCd/NiMH batteries used frequently on old motherboards versus an EDLC, which lasts longer before they become unusable?
Are there other devices that frequently have their EDLCs fail? I don't have a Fluke DMM and don't know if I have devices with EDLCs... I did extract a small EDLC (0.047F) from some device and it still seems to work, so they're not extremely fragile AFAIK...
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