Castle Creations 12S CapPack 880UF Capacitor Pack (50V)
About this part
The Castle Creations CapPack is designed for quick and easy installation. Users simply cut the soft silicone insulation on the battery wires – do this as close to the ESC as possible – and place the exposed wires in the channels on CC CapPack's posts. Check for proper polarity and then solder the wires to the posts. Use the included heat shrink to finish it off for a professional looking install.
- Helis: CapPack is highly recommended for all 500 class and larger heli applications where Y harnesses and long wires can bleed voltage and hard collective pulls can strain even the most powerful batteries.
- Cars/Trucks: With their high torque requirements – going from 0 to 100% throttle isn't easy on controllers or batteries - RC cars and trucks put enormous loads on brushless power systems. Use the CapPack to help your system power through the abuse.
- Aircraft: Larger electric power systems lead to larger electric powered aircraft, and sometimes the distance between the battery pack and the ESC grows beyond the length of the wires installed on the components. Adding wire also adds inductance, which can increase the ripple voltage in a system. The CapPack essentially negates the ripple caused by the addition of up to 8 inches of length to the battery wires.
Dimensions:
Length: 1.8" (45.7mm)
Width: 0.78" (19.8mm)
Height: 0.7" (17.6mm)
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WARNING: This product can expose you to chemicals including Di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP), which is known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov Details...Reviews3.7 · 3 reviews
I am just writing this to defend the product against the previous review. The guy clearly doesn't understand what these are for and his results make 0 sense if they where installed properly. Creating more heat and such is an impossibility for caps that are run inline with the wires. They are doing nothing to the current flow. Even if the caps popped, it wouldn't hurt the battery input to the ESC. Truth is these cap packs aren't designed or intended to give you any sort of boost like [C. Allen] assumes. Caps are intended to take stress off the system between the battery input to ESC terminals. First off you should mount these parallel with the battery cables "AS CLOSE TO THE ESC AS POSSIBLE". What they actually are intended for and do is reduce "current ripple", which occurs when you're on and off the throttle. Think of it as rattling pipes in the water lines (battery cables) of an old house. When you open the faucet, (hit the throttle) you release all the built up water pressure (battery current), and when you shut off the faucet (let off the throttle) you can hear the pipes rattle due to the sudden stop of flow that give the water (current) no where to escape softly, so it ripples backwards against it's self building up heat in your pack, ESC, and motor as all impedance does. The primary effect of these are to reduce the current slamming by offing it a place to go when you're off throttle. Just like a water reservoir/regulator would. As you likely know, most ESC's already have caps on them between the input terminals. By adding more caps like these low impedance castle units, you're increasing your buffer ability to handle the strains of high amp low volt 2S packs on heavy SCTs. Anyhow, people shouldn't be allowed to post miss info on stuff they don't understand, so don't buy into it people. They are fine
I use capacitors on all my Vehicles. I'm purchasing this capacitor pack for a 4s vehicle. These stabilize your electrical system.
purchased one of these to boost my car running a 2650 KV motor, hobbywing ESC with 2S battery. The only thing this did was add excessive heat to the motor wires and the motor and caused three DNF's. I can't say there was any increase in response or performance. Once removed the car ran just fine and finished races again. Not exactly what I was expecting so you better evaluate if you really need this problem introduced into your system. Mine is going to collect dust in the parts bin.
Three reviews with mixed views. One five-star reviewer defends the pack, stating capacitors sit inline with the ESC battery leads, do not add heat, and mainly reduce electrical stress when mounted close to the ESC; they reject the idea that it gives a performance boost. A second five-star reviewer says it stabilises the electrical system and is intended for a 4S vehicle. A verified owner rated it one star, reporting that it on a 2S setup with a 2650KV motor added heat to the motor wires and motor, coincided with three DNFs, and produced no noticeable performance gain; removing it resolved the issues. Reviews are few and conflict on heat and performance effects, and one review is largely a rebuttal of another.
- + Described as stabilising the electrical system
- + Reviewer reports capacitors are used across their vehicles
- − Verified owner reported added heat in motor wires and motor
- − Verified owner reported no noticeable performance gain
- − Verified owner reported three DNFs while installed