Here's what I found out lately.

I put the Novak ss diode on my TC with the keyence yesterday and ran it around a bit. I didn't notice any performance gains or losses. What I did notice was how clean the brushes and comm were after the run. I did some more testing also. I ran 2 battery packs through the car without a shottke and the comm was a little burnt and the brushes were purple. I put on 2 regular shottke diode's and after 2 packs of hard driving, the comm looked clean but the brushes started turning purple at the tips. For the 2 last runs, I put the novak ss diode on and the comm was clean and the brushes weren't burnt.

All of the tests were with a Reedy quad mag 19t with reedy 767 brushes, full faced, with Purple+ and Red- springs, and a gearing of 38/100 on my yok sd.

So far I have over 50 runs on the keyence with a shottke diode of some sort on it and it just seems to be better with it on.

Thanks,

Tim