Thread: Team Death - New Heavyweight

Originally Posted by typhoon_driver

What voltage are you running the Ragebridge at?

The battery we were using yesterday was around 12V (of indeterminate A). But the main battery packs are 2x 14.4v nominal LiPo. The spark is certainly down to the capacitors of the ESC instantly charging, and the LiPos can give out up to 250A (200A continuous), but exactly how much of that was very briefly used for the cap charge is unknown (the 200A in line fuse didn't blow though), each motor side is further fused for 70A (in line with the RageBridge max A per channel), but the motors weren't in the equation for the sparking issue last week.

Originally Posted by emisnug

We use a 270 ohm resistor for our anti-spark link! Have you reached out to E0D/Charles to see what might be up with it?

Some research online suggested just 1 ohm would do it, although we never got to find out exactly if that was true to any degree or not, as the ESC wasn't taking any power, so there was never a completed circuit for it to spark to begin with this week.

We had further issue, as Colins multimeter had battery issues, and then display issues. So i'll bring along my AMECaL meter next week and see if we can diagnose anything and get some readings with that. The three resistors we got cost less than £1 all together, so we can easily get others if needed, no big loss.