Install the Capacitor Unit in the Truck

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The Coolest Truck Battery Upgrade You Never Knew About! (Bolt In Supercapacitor!)

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What happens here

After the capacitor is fully charged, unbolt and remove one of the truck's existing batteries. The creator notes that he had to bend up the battery hold-down tabs in the battery tray because they were flattened. Carefully place the charged XS Power Batteries capacitor unit into the now-empty battery tray. Connect the existing battery cables to the side post terminals of the capacitor. The capacitor is lighter than a traditional battery, so ensure it is securely fastened within the tray to prevent movement while driving.

Goal: Replace one of the truck's batteries with the capacitor unit.

Tools and materials

2007 LBZ Duramax Truck GMC — The vehicle receiving the capacitor unit
Pry Bar — Bending battery hold-down tabs if necessary
Socket Wrench — Removing the old battery and securing the new capacitor terminals
RTV Silicone — Insulating exposed metal parts on the battery terminals for safety and corrosion prevention

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thinking it would turn off any time now and during that time we did a little more work on the escalade but that's a separate video you should go watch those if you haven't also took the old batteries out which aren't even old we just bought those like two months ago yeah so don't like they can go to something else yeah it's always good to have um extra batteries on standby those are probably the ones that you get used to uh power up the rolls which also if you're new here we have a 2004 rolls-royce phantom it's a flood car and we're building it into something kind of like the escalade but not it's gonna be cooler you beat me to it yeah it's gonna be like it's cool take the coolness level the escalade and think wow there's no way they could possibly top that and then we're gonna top that but um it's in the beginning phases so personally i think the escalade would be cooler because you can put bfgs on escalade and you can't really do that with the rosaries so we may have to revisit that insane maybe it's possible like that fastback with the bfg's on it i don't know the wheel openings and the rolls are pretty dang big i bet you could get it yeah i bet you good if you really wanted to should we put all-terrain tires on the rolls royce like dirt drags or something sled pole oh my god i think people would lose their mind absolutely would and drop everything at the same time it didn't say which way to do this but i would imagine that the primary battery spot would go where the actual battery goes then you put the capacitor where the accelerated battery goes on like a two battery diesel truck setup so that's what we're gonna do first then i gotta unlock all this this foam around here i don't know if anybody else has had this problem but the battery hold down tabs down there i had to bend those up because for whatever reason they were like all pulled out and flat no matter how i orient the little clippy thing it just wouldn't hold the battery down it didn't matter much when you had a heavy actual battery in here but um this thing doesn't you know it only weighs 11 pounds so freaking bounce all over the place so i just had to bend those up to get them to actually hold the battery fix the problem so i just did it with my fingers that's what she said uh but not to you olden joke if you watched really old videos bringing it back yeah so we'll see if this does anything it didn't do anything that must mean it is successfully charged cool we need to show you something we…

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