Time for XS Power SuperBANK Ultra Capacitor installation. I bought the Ultra Cap and battery tray from
JEGS. I had plenty of real estate for the Ultra Capacitor, just had to move my coolant overflow bottle. The battery tray the salesman at
JEGS sold me had no mounting hardware, also was 1/4” too narrow. I used my Milwaukee fine tool to remove the lip of tray on one side to make it fit. The curvature of the inside wheel wheel dropped off too steep. Dug through my framing hardware and found a L-bracket which worked nicely.
Secured the battery tray and was ready to get the ultra capacitor installed.
Next was getting wire distance measured. Solder on terminal adapters to the wire. Run wire from battery to ultra capacitor. Hook up negative. Use vice grips and crimp positive wire to the supplied charging regulating light. When first hooked up the light is brightly illuminated but as the ultra capacitor charges the light slowly dims out when fully charged.
Remove the light and connect positive battery wire to the positive ultra capacitor terminal. Next was figuring how to reinstall my coolant overflow bottle. Modified the bracket reinstall.
Ran wire loom and zip tied the wire out of the way and was ready for startup.
I decided to take a short video of my cold start the other day to compare the difference between just a 930CCA battery startup and startup with the addition of the SuperBANK ultra capacitor.
Startup with cranking volts dropping close to 8volts.
Startup with cranking volts dropping to 10.5volts. Much smoother and stronger starting power. Now just ready for some cold arctic weather. Unlike batteries that struggle as temps get too hot or too cold, ultra capacitors are rated -40F to 150F.