Supercapacitor Energy Harvesting - What You Need to Know - Workbench Wednesdays
Low-power IoT devices can harvest energy from wind, heat, and solar sources, and you can store that energy in a battery or a supercapacitor. With help from Eaton, James talks in this episode about what electric double-layer capacitors (EDLCs) are, considerations for when you'd want to use them, and a small demo where we harvest solar energy into a supercapacitor to drive a Raspberry Pi Pico W.
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Article from Eaton - Supercapacitors vs Batteries: https://eaton.works/42RaHZg
Eaton's supercapacitor calculator: https://eaton.works/3JiWYmP
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#0:00 Welcome to Workbench Wednesdays
#0:53 EDLC Overview
#3:30 Charge-Discharge Behavior
#6:14 Energy
#8:05 Harvest "Solar" Energy
#12:09 Give Your Feedback
#supercapacitor #capacitor #eaton #solarenergy #energyharvesting #battery #raspberrypi #raspberrypipico
