Quark fried, blown capacitor...

OK guys, another update. I realized something today. Some of you may have noticed my complaining about the weight of my Muggy, being 13lbs. That's one of the reasons that I got the 8ight T. Well, I'm just an idiot.

I doctored up some Dynamite 23mm LST2 hexes to fit my 8ight T and put some 40 series Moabs on the 8ight T. Get this...with the huge tires on it, 5S2P 8Ah lipo pack, and everything else, it came in at 12lbs 15oz. Go figure.

My point being this. When I was running the MM in the Muggy, at 10/46 gearing, it cogged so badly that it cooked the MM. Now that I'm running the MM with the cap bank, I'm running the Moabs (which are taller than the Mashers on the Muggy) with 12/44 gearing without a hitch. The caps are definitely having an impact on the performance of the esc.

I do have a question though, for you more knowledgeable guys. Can the addition of the caps in some way prevent the FETs from frying? How is it that the addtion of the caps is reducing the cogging so much? I know it is the caps because the esc that I'm running now is the exact same one that I fried on the MM/5S setup before.

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Indirectly I guess they can prevent them from being fried/stressed alot. The caps allow for better FET switching (from ON to OFF to ON...). I have prob said that before in this thread, but so ppl know. It also obsorbs all the noise/spikes/all the garbage stuff from the the power stage, basically cleaner power, the 'brains' of the controller maybe does not get so confused then?

I really can not tell you exactly what it can/does do inside the power circuit, cause that's all I know. Apparently it is working great! :027: :027: :eek: