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I'm looking for advice about upgrading the capacitors on my Golden Motors controller.
Reading:
Low ESR Capacitors
http://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=22194&start=45
Novak Power Capacitor
http://www.teamnovak.com/tech_info/power_caps/power_caps.htm
The reason I have become interested is I am currently running the controller right at it's maximum level. The electronics are rated to 63V and I'm running a 60V Li-Ion battery setup. I'm wanting to increase the life of this controller as it's serving my purpose just fine for college transportation. Reading forums of R/C ESC capacitor upgrades has me thinking it wouldn't hurt to just slap a couple 63V 1800µF capacitors I have on and be happy. But I understand that would perhaps give my ride a bit more punch it would not help in the slightest with the handling of the higher voltage I'm feeding it. I took a bunch of pictures as I had a hard time finding any of the golden motor controller so I'll share what I got.
Now this is the controller. Nothing fancy, just wanted to show layout of the capacitors in question.
Now the 2 big capacitors are 63V 470µF
The smaller right above 63v 47µF -->(Possible upgrade to a 100v 100µF??)
Just above that is a 63v 100µF -->(Possible upgrade to a 100v 100µF??)
The last one is a 25V 470µF
Upon looking at the board I've noticed 3 smaller capacitors on the underside that are showing some troublesome signs of overheating.
16v 47µF
Don't know if it's good enough so I took another picture. The plastic seems to be slowly
Now my first concern is can I easily just swap the tiny 16v for something with a higher voltage rating as long as I keep the capacity 47µF or higher??
If I replace my 2 main caps with ones of lower ESR I know they will have a very small µF rating. So can I offset that by attaching a small bank of x3 100V 470µF to the (+)(-) off the board and be okay??
I'm trying to be as specific as possible but please be easy on a novice electronic tinker.
Reading:
Low ESR Capacitors
http://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=22194&start=45
Novak Power Capacitor
http://www.teamnovak.com/tech_info/power_caps/power_caps.htm
The reason I have become interested is I am currently running the controller right at it's maximum level. The electronics are rated to 63V and I'm running a 60V Li-Ion battery setup. I'm wanting to increase the life of this controller as it's serving my purpose just fine for college transportation. Reading forums of R/C ESC capacitor upgrades has me thinking it wouldn't hurt to just slap a couple 63V 1800µF capacitors I have on and be happy. But I understand that would perhaps give my ride a bit more punch it would not help in the slightest with the handling of the higher voltage I'm feeding it. I took a bunch of pictures as I had a hard time finding any of the golden motor controller so I'll share what I got.
Now this is the controller. Nothing fancy, just wanted to show layout of the capacitors in question.
Now the 2 big capacitors are 63V 470µF
The smaller right above 63v 47µF -->(Possible upgrade to a 100v 100µF??)
Just above that is a 63v 100µF -->(Possible upgrade to a 100v 100µF??)
The last one is a 25V 470µF
Upon looking at the board I've noticed 3 smaller capacitors on the underside that are showing some troublesome signs of overheating.
16v 47µF
Don't know if it's good enough so I took another picture. The plastic seems to be slowly
Now my first concern is can I easily just swap the tiny 16v for something with a higher voltage rating as long as I keep the capacity 47µF or higher??
If I replace my 2 main caps with ones of lower ESR I know they will have a very small µF rating. So can I offset that by attaching a small bank of x3 100V 470µF to the (+)(-) off the board and be okay??
I'm trying to be as specific as possible but please be easy on a novice electronic tinker.