Originally Posted by
ScottCommutes
Pretty counter intuitive, right? Look up the word "capacitor". It charges itself slowly from the almost dead battery and then is able to release all that energy in a sudden burst that can start the car.
while I won’t say it’s not possible, a capacitor has to receive energy before it stores it, not sure how it would receive energy or energy from a dead battery.
If it there was an ability tto suck amperage from a dead battery, wouldn’t the energy removed equal the amperage it could push back out at best, which of course wasn’t enough to start it in the first place?