The Penny Drops

[Mark L. Chang]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 03:52:55PM -0400 or thereabouts, Marc Swanson wrote:
> The battery is a big fat capacitor.  Many charging systems rely somewhat
> on the battery to smooth out the voltage for the devices connected to
> the system.  Plus some of the engine electronics may not work at all at
> anything other than a narrow band of say 10-13 volts.  Go outside of
> that even for an instant and it may shut down.  Driving a car without a
> battery is just a really bad idea in general as it can damage the
> electronics for this reason, especially in newer cars.


I get that. But if I had clean power from the regulator, I can't see any
reason why I would need a battery once it was putting out power. Just
from a feeding power standpoint.

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