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Originally Posted by lutach
Ok, so I got this thing inside my head that's driving me nuts. I have a M.Troniks ESC (Sorry Patrick, I know this is Castle's section) the truck one and it came with 3 diodes to add to each phase and then it went to the negative battery connector. Now what are they really for?
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/b...p/DSCF2201.jpg (Thanks linc for the pic) |
From the way they are hooked up (cathode to ground), they look like they would clamp the EMF spikes to whatever they are rated for. I would assume they are similar to the TVS devices in operation, except on the motor wires instead of the power input. Another possibility is to add/supplement the built-in diodes in the FETs (older FETs may not have the diode integrated, I dunno).