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zeropointbug · 05:40 PM

It will not hold higher voltage (well, for milliseconds maybe), what it does is lower the resistance for the PWM switching in the FET's. So, in theory, it might increase the voltage a very tiny bit, but nothing you will notice in real world. It will reduce heat (in theory) in the FET's because of reduced rise and fall times for each PWM pulse. Adding caps will also subsequently reduce the heat build up in each capacitor because of the load being reduced to each single cap.

Here is what I did to my Quark 125, took the 2 caps out (which had the tabs melted off) and added a 6 cap bank on buss bar soldered directly to the board, and used thermal adhesive on the FET's to secure them to the esc case, then to a heatsink. All in all, after making adding the caps, the controller 'felt', and the motor brakes sounded different as well. I can do 30 min mains, and temps afterwards are very low (cool) on a hot race day, in fact, it could be run 24/7 with the mods made to it. Pic shows it with the heatsink not installed yet.

http://picasaweb.google.com/SethHuls...48443563893362

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zeropointbug Z-Pinch racer Offline Posts: 3,141 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: SK, Canada	10.13.2009, 05:39 PM It will not hold higher voltage (well, for milliseconds maybe), what it does is lower the resistance for the PWM switching in the FET's. So, in theory, it might increase the voltage a very tiny bit, but nothing you will notice in real world. It will reduce heat (in theory) in the FET's because of reduced rise and fall times for each PWM pulse. Adding caps will also subsequently reduce the heat build up in each capacitor because of the load being reduced to each single cap. Here is what I did to my Quark 125, took the 2 caps out (which had the tabs melted off) and added a 6 cap bank on buss bar soldered directly to the board, and used thermal adhesive on the FET's to secure them to the esc case, then to a heatsink. All in all, after making adding the caps, the controller 'felt', and the motor brakes sounded different as well. I can do 30 min mains, and temps afterwards are very low (cool) on a hot race day, in fact, it could be run 24/7 with the mods made to it. Pic shows it with the heatsink not installed yet. http://picasaweb.google.com/SethHuls...48443563893362 “The modern astrophysical concept that ascribes the sun’s energy to thermonuclear reactions deep in the solar interior is contradicted by nearly every observable aspect of the sun.” —Ralph E. Juergens Last edited by zeropointbug; 10.13.2009 at 05:40 PM.