What’s the Crippling capasitor for?

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    • August 2, 2002 at 3:06 am #9197
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      Does anyone know why the crippling capasitor was installed in the controllers? Does it save on battery life or do anything other than hurt the range?

    • August 2, 2002 at 3:53 am #14938
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      M_Coupe

      The capacitor was installed in certain models for two reasons:

      • RF-emission compliance in some countries (CE, FCC etc rulings)

      • Reduce incidence of frequency cross-talk between cars of different frequencies.

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        Cheers

        Derek

    • August 2, 2002 at 9:15 pm #14980
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      Yep, good call Derek. The only thing a cap in that position can do is decrease output power. I suspect it was primarily for frequency seperation. My cars will work with other frequency remotes if the remote wire is right up next to the car. And when racing, the cars tend to studder when they get close to the other person. Instead of making high quality transmitters and receivers with accurate frequencies they just lowered the output wattage with the cap. That’s my theory.

      -Peter

    • August 2, 2002 at 9:39 pm #14983
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      i just cut mine out did i do the right thing

    • August 4, 2002 at 8:02 am #15031
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      That makes sense. Lower production costs means lower unit costs and higher profits. Can’t blame them for wanting that. Thanks for the info guys.

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