ORIGINAL: wetsleeves
Hi Guys,
I have to castle HV 120 amp esc and ive been told to add extra caps to the esc.
The caps that have been given to me are 4x 3300uF 50v. I will be adding 2 to each esc.
On the caps there is a long pin and a short pin, which pin should be soldered to the positve side?
Im running 10s on each esc.
The esc have been running fine without the extra caps but ive been told to add them as it will help the esc.
What do you think.
Cheers Peter
A 10S setup will torture the 50V caps, you need to go up at least to the next standard, 63V.
The 10S setup fresh charged can give you 4.2*10=42V, but when the ESC is in use there can be voltage spikes way exceeding 42V. I'd go for even higher voltage rated caps if I were you, maybe to 100V.