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Originally Posted by jhautz
Ive had 2 CC BECs fail on me now. One went up in smoke, but did no other damage. The other took out a $100 servo and $90 Rx.
I was running a few of these cheap ones for a long time (years) prior to getting the CC BEC and have yet to have one fail. When the CC units died, these trusty fellows went back into service and I havent looked back. For $15 you can beat them.
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The trouble I've noticed with some of the cheaper UBECs out there is build quality, or rather component selection. Ever notice how the "good" BECs use fairly large inductors? If they are too small, they saturate too quickly with higher currents. Most of the switching BECs out there (aside from CC) use a switching regulator IC (sometimes the same one), so the selection of support components makes a big difference. Howewer, if running the cheaper BECs at lower currents, they aren't so bad.