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08.14.2015, 02:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Big House View Post
What is the safe zone for ripple voltage. I was comparing graphs of my XL2 with and with out cap packs and in looking at all three the highest ripple voltage i saw was 4v at 306 amps. Trying not to kill my controllers so any help is appreciated.
The safe zone depends on capacitor temperature. At 4V of ripple voltage, the capacitors are not going to survive long...

If you are really running those kinds of peak currents, I'd suggest an external capacitor pack (or 2!)

http://www.castlecreations.com/produ...-cap-pack.html

Thanks!

Patrick


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