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Old 03-07-2019 | 09:56 PM
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Hey!

Bought a car from a guy and I found this connected to the receiver... what is it? Reminds me of a cap pack or bec, but it’s connected straight to the receiver?

Its wired straight to the aux and doesn’t go anywhere else? What’s it do?
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Old 03-07-2019 | 10:00 PM
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Some people used to use them to prevent glitching. Given the short wires - ideal length is super short.
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Originally Posted by Shnoo

Hey!

Bought a car from a guy and I found this connected to the receiver... what is it? Reminds me of a cap pack or bec, but it’s connected straight to the receiver?

Its wired straight to the aux and doesn’t go anywhere else? What’s it do?
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it's a capacitor. I want to say it capacitates, and when dipped in flux you can go hella fast.

it's just acting as a "glitch buster" or something to that effect on your ESC internal battery eliminator circuit. It can also act like a filter, but being that big I'm guessing it's an attempt at solving receiver brown outs.
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Old 03-07-2019 | 10:12 PM
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Ok makes sense. Also gonna jump topics here, but maybe it’s related... Got a Tekin RX8 esc, it’s blinking 1,4,all leds. According to the manual the 1,4 is normal temp checking, but the all leds is receiver lost connection... but what’s odd is while it’s blinking all I can still turn and drive. Any ideas?
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Old 03-08-2019 | 06:24 AM
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Be careful with those glitch busters, I would only use them as a last resort as they can potentially mask other problems that should be addressed first.

Brown outs can happen if you have not properly set the end points on the servo to where if it overloads the limit points, then you can get a brown out.
Some brands of servos (i.e. Savox) tend to be very inefficient and pull significantly more current which can overload the BEC and cause a brown out.
I have seen cases where a high flow motor cooling fan overloaded the BEC causing a brown out.

Consider the BEC on your ESC, I used to run a HobbyWing Justock which comes with a 2A BEC and a Savox 1258 servo, everything worked fine for over a year running several brands of ROAR approved 13.5T motors in my wheeler. Then I upgraded to a Trinity Punisher which is an Outlaw motor, then I started getting brownouts... I chose to upgrade my ESC to a ProStock with a 3A BEC and then my brownouts went away, chances are the glitch buster would've solved the issue but there were some other features that I wanted with the higher quality ESC anyway
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Old 03-08-2019 | 04:46 PM
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Bump, any ideas on the blinking?
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Old 03-08-2019 | 05:29 PM
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are you sure it just isn't in blinky mode which is required for stock racing?
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you can down load the Tekin manual from there website.. for free..

troubleshooting about the blinking LED's included...

also call them for help..

and take that average electrolytic capacitor off and pitch it.. my opinion...
to large for a noise filter.. to small for a brown-out buffer.
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Old 03-08-2019 | 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted by billdelong
are you sure it just isn't in blinky mode which is required for stock racing?
Hmm that might just be it! I’ll have to check, but I do know the guy was a racer.
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I have a similar situation
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