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Old 03-08-2009 | 12:34 PM
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Default RE: Max wire length between motor and ESC?

This is not a wire resistance issue, it's a problem caused by the inductance of the battery wires.

Manufacturer's statements (they all say the same, including Bob Boucher), rules of thumb, workarounds, tricks, explanations:
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=952523

If you fly WOT most, all of the time, it's not that much of an issue, not much switching going on then. Also, some manufacturers have plenty of built-in capacitor-reserve and -quality, others haven't.


I worked for the [link=http://www.fnl.nl/]Dutch pendant[/link] of the German [link=http://www.heise.de/ct/]C't computer magazine[/link]. Booooooring, translating German to Dutch, not technical enough for me. Christian Persson, the C't editor, wrote the e-flight "Drive Calculator": www.yahoogroups.com/group/d-calc .

Vriendelijke groeten Ron