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So he just has to connect about 50 of those caps on his esc and problem is solved😉
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OOPS, double post.Last edited by NativePaul; 08-31-2017, 01:42 PM.Paul Upton-Taylor, Greased Weasel Racing.Comment
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Indeed, but simplifying it with 1 farad may be a little too much. I know of no 1 farad ultra low ESR caps, and as you would need 833 of the 1200uf caps that castle include on their 200A ECSs to make 1 Farad, finding room for 50 farads worth (over 40,000 of them) may be problematic for the average FE boat.
My guess is that it wouldnt be worth the weight, when (assuming a castle 200 ESC with no external cap bank) batteries seem capable of supplying 99.98333% of that peak energy reasonably well at the moment.
The small amount of capacitance we can realisticly add is an irrelivance in terms of a power boost for the big current spikes, and will make no noticable or measurable diffference to RPM.Paul Upton-Taylor, Greased Weasel Racing.Comment
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The capacitance is working on the amp spikes and the sudden volt change it produces. It provides the energy just long enough so the wires can recover from their inductance. So this is happening in the uS time frame, not seconds. But it only takes a voltage excursion beyond the ESC rating for 1/2 a uS to smoke the ESC. A uS is one millionth of a second! Bad things can happen in incredibly fast time frames...Comment
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That is correct, but what you said earlier and I was responding to and quoted you on above with talks about a very different time frame "0.5-0.8 seconds".Paul Upton-Taylor, Greased Weasel Racing.Comment
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Are you ever tried with portable solar panels which include batteries? Try them out as I was facing the same problem in my farm, that batteries were dying soon due to rain.Comment
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