Nerobro

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We'll see. I think tekins secret is using lots of godawful tiny fets. The SOIC8 and similar aren't gonna cut it. "the rest" of the ESC isn't very big.

Nerobro

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well, that's amusing. GreatScott did a video on building a sensored brushless motor.

Nerobro

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I fixed up an ESC last night. Swapped in a 5amp LDO regulator to replace a 1 amp LDO regulator.

howardcano

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Will you need a heat sink, or is this just to handle higher-current peaks?

Nerobro

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That's a good question.

This is really just to handle transients. It'll do 5amps for a second or two. Go much beyond that... and you're gonna be melting bits inside the servo anyway. :-)

With a full size Savox, or a TG-411 if you went bonkers on steering, or stressed the servo, it could get the receiver to brownout. That doesn't happen with that vreg on there. The TO-220 package doesn't get warm at all, with as much torture as I'm willing to give a servo I want to keep using.