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Unread 05-01-2006, 22:42
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Re: capacitors in parallel with motors

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Originally Posted by phrontist
Adding filter caps will almost certainly cause problems. If you add a big enough cap it will probably make your controls sluggish...
I think that in order to be large enough to make sluggishness a cause for concern, the cap would be HUGE. I don't really want to spend the time on the math, but I suspect that it would have to be far larger than most readily available caps.
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