EssForty
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No real benefit for what you describe. A capacitor would discharge rather quickly. It's really just a little reservoir that smooths out your DC voltage supply.
If you're old enough to have had a big old console TV or a Vacuum tube radio, you'll have a feel for how capacitors work. Remember how you'd snap off the TV and the picture would not just go off, but the sound and picture would sorta fade into a little dot in the center. That was because there were some large capacitors that were discharging when the power was cut off. Same for an old radio...cut it off and the sounds would sorta die slowly.
Might be easier to think of capacitors with an air analogy. Imagine that your bike was not an engine but a compressor. When you're running smooth it fills up a 1 gal tank (capacitor) with air. When your savage backfires it loses air. So let's say it starts with 50 PSI and maintains about 50 PSI since we all know that a good savage backfires about as frequently as a Taco Bell customer.
Anyway, so you start with a 1 gal air compressor tank on your pillion, drive & backfire frequently and at no time do you drop below 50 psi while you are riding your bike. Then you park your bike and cut the engine off. Now imagine plugging a hungry pneumatic tool like a HVLP spray paint gun into your puny little 50 psi 1 gallon tank. In short order, the compressor (capacitor) is drained. To finish the analogy, imagine how big of a compressor tank you'd have to pull behind your bike to spray paint a bus.
So the capacitor is good for buffering voltage during operations but is pretty useless to power anything for any duration. If it were better than a battery we'd use capacitors everywhere.
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