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01.02.2009, 05:35 PM

I guess the maker and designer of some of the best ESC's don't know what he's talking about...

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Originally Posted by Pdelcast View Post
The braking is regenerative because it has to be -- can't dump that much energy anywhere but back into the battery. (The battery is used as a load, but using a battery as a load mean charging the battery...)

It is not, however, optimized.

Still gets fairly good efficiency up to about 35% braking power -- above that the conversion efficiency gets lower.
PS lower effeciency means heat...

Last edited by Arct1k; 01.02.2009 at 05:36 PM.
   
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