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Offline Jason Greer

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Ripple voltage on ICE50
« on: July 04, 2012, 09:04:11 PM »
Has anyone logged the ripple voltage parameter on their ICE 50?  I've added an arming plug to my setup and to get the plug in a convenient location, I had to add about 6" of extra wire on the positive battery lead on my ESC.  The negative lead is still the factory length.  Before lengthening the wire, I logged the ripple voltage at around 1.4.  After lengthening the wire the ripple voltage went to 1.7.  My question is will this be enough of an increase to damage the capacitors on the input side of the esc?  Castle Creations recommends adding an additional capacitor for every 4" of added length to both battery leads.  This would be a total increase of wire length of 8".  I only increased one of the battery leads by 6".  Has anyone else had to add any additional wire to their esc's?  

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Re: Ripple voltage on ICE50
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2012, 07:16:44 PM »
Hi Jason,
That should be fine.

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Re: Ripple voltage on ICE50
« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2012, 09:18:10 PM »
Dean,

Thanks for the reply!  I've improved the component layout in the front end of my model so that the wire extension is no longer needed.

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Jason
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Re: Ripple voltage on ICE50
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2012, 12:07:00 PM »
And added lightness too, I'll bet!
That sounds good.
  Dean
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