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Re: capacitors on motors

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Originally Posted by sparksandtabs
i dont know if t his should be here or not but when ever i see a motor from a r/c car it has a couples of capacitors between the leads on the motor, and i was wonder what is the purpose of them?
Capacitors are usually used in dc motors to try and smooth out electrical "noise" created by the motors. This noise, if not smoothed out by the capacitors, could cause some of the other electronics hooked up to malfunction.
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