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Old 30-01-2018
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Originally Posted by steve-thebabystore View Post
A capacitor that helps smooth the power to the esc and stop sudden changes in power supply. Probably a simplified response but can understand how it helps. Several top end esc’s have external capacitors for this reason.
All esc have capacitors on them but they are built into the casing on some escs

A power cap is a capacitor that plugs into a spare socket in the receiver and helps maintain a constant voltage to the receiver and servo.

There is lots of different brands available and the prices vary a lot, here's a link to a savox power cap
https://www.modelsport.co.uk/index.p...hoCbi4QAvD_BwE

I've not had any experience with sanwa Radio but I run spektrum receivers which are prone to "brown outs" (going into failsafe is the voltage supply drops) and a power cap helps prevents this
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