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Originally Posted by KevLee
Speedo caps aren't there to give you more power, just smooth out the spikes to let the speedo run cooler and reduce the risk of damage to the FETS..
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I never said a capacitor will give you more power (but it will, it will give you more initial punch). Power capacitors are there as much for your battery as they are your ESC. The very low internal resistance is brilliant for providing that initial boost of energy and take the strain away from the battery and ESC.
And of course brushless ESC's need large power capacitors to filter out the voltage ripple. And 300 millifarads in not large! Take a typical dicharge under a 60 ampere burst, the cap would be empty after 0.000037 seconds... you just worry at that size how effectively it can smooth voltage ripple. A 1000 millifarad capacitor would take 0.0001233 to empty flat which is much more reasonable I feel.
Of course on the RedLines I'm sure the small cap is fine, as the motors are smooth and software works properly. I am not suggesting you will have a problem, so I am not surprised when it is said it works fine with other motors. I just wonder why put it under the extra strain though.
As for the RS, I suppose being able to operate both sensored and sensorless is great, so you don't loose anything. I just feel that sensored technology is inferior so would never find a reason to run it. The only reason the RS was made is that ROAR have some stupid rules and you basically have to make a Novak style sensored motor to be race legal (hence the sensorless RedLines are not ROAR legal). It is for this reason also that Castle Creations do not have a ROAR race legal set up as they are not willing to make inferior technology to meet a rule (yet).
I think also the R1 had some issues at first with the slower motors (13.5T etc) at first too, but the latest software sorts this out no problem.
