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Old 10-21-2013, 11:33 PM
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..just want to make sure everything will be running good with that setup..is the stock capacitor attached to the esc (stock one) strong enough for this servo? thx for any help/hint!
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The cap doesn't run the servo, the bec does.
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And to expand, if you find that it does have brown-out issues, you will need to put a secondary cap into the receiver, aka a "glitch-buster," not do anything different with the ESC. That being said, the LRP's typically have as strong a BEC as anything out there and many of the Savox issues have to do with the receiver they're plugged into being very sensitive to voltage drops, i.e. Spektrum receivers are, Futaba ones not as much and so on.
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alright thx guys..gotta give a try and if i get brown out issues will add a glitch buster! thx!
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LRP FLow has a 6V / 3 amp BEC and the Savox has a peak amp draw of 3 amps at 6 volts. This suggests that, especially if you vehicle is heavy, you might have some brown-out issues with this combo if you run a fan on the ESC, a transponder, and run on a high traction track.

This is one thing I wish more servo manufacturers would publish... Amp draw. It takes current to generate those torque numbers their so proud of and most BEC's are limited on what they can provide.

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thx banshee..so should i be okay if i instal spektrum voltage protector like this one ? thank you!

http://www.amainhobbies.com/product_...tage-Protector
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Originally Posted by mccoy
thx banshee..so should i be okay if i instal spektrum voltage protector like this one ? thank you!

http://www.amainhobbies.com/product_...tage-Protector
That's perfect.
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