frogman1206
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I have a Diatone Tyrant 180 that was a PNF setup. A great little machine for a PNF when flying on 4S.
I bought it from an online retailer I have become friends with. The owner offered to upgrade my ESCs to Little Bees 20amp. He was replacing them on his racer and offered to give me and even install them on my Tyrant as a free upgrade. Of course I was all over it.
He did tell me I would need to install a capacitor since the Little Bees create voltage spikes that can toast your VTX for the FPV. The stock ESCs that came on the Tyrant had small capacitors installed on them but they seemed fragile just hanging out of the ESC in the open. The new ESCs don't have them. He told me a 1000uf 35V capacitor would do the trick. He mentioned to just solder it to the pad where the battery connections mounts to the board.
Is this the right place? It seems that would not be absorbing the spikes downstream but at the battery. Seems to me it should be somewhere on the PDB nearer the VTX plug? For testing he just wired the VTX off the balance plugs to alleviate the problem. I would rather not have to do that. I can get the capacitor and solder it on but want to make sure I put it in the right place.
Any help would be appreciated.
I bought it from an online retailer I have become friends with. The owner offered to upgrade my ESCs to Little Bees 20amp. He was replacing them on his racer and offered to give me and even install them on my Tyrant as a free upgrade. Of course I was all over it.
He did tell me I would need to install a capacitor since the Little Bees create voltage spikes that can toast your VTX for the FPV. The stock ESCs that came on the Tyrant had small capacitors installed on them but they seemed fragile just hanging out of the ESC in the open. The new ESCs don't have them. He told me a 1000uf 35V capacitor would do the trick. He mentioned to just solder it to the pad where the battery connections mounts to the board.
Is this the right place? It seems that would not be absorbing the spikes downstream but at the battery. Seems to me it should be somewhere on the PDB nearer the VTX plug? For testing he just wired the VTX off the balance plugs to alleviate the problem. I would rather not have to do that. I can get the capacitor and solder it on but want to make sure I put it in the right place.
Any help would be appreciated.