(27-Aug-2019, 07:43 AM)voodoo614 Wrote: Lots of solid VTXs. Do you want stack mount or non-stack?

Some good brands.
Matek, RDQ Mach, TBS, RUSH (from reviews), Tramp.

That is really weird it fried. Something was probably going south already.

I think stack or no stack would be fine. Heard good things regarding the Mach line up.

Yes... The turn of events says that tx5258 was on its way to nuketown*

I want to get anothervvtx here asap before the weather gets to ugly. Idaho. The #208. 7 months of winter lol

One last thing.... I'd bet that I started damaging my TX5258 doing *benchwork. I had it plugged in for awhile one day and kind of forgot about it. At the time, I didn't know they need some air flow. Lesson learned

You want to also put an antenna on the VTX when you power up. VTXs do get really hot, so always make sure not to run them on the bench very long.

Is it possible you didn't get a low ESR capacitor? Also, and I'm not 100% sure about this but I think I remember hearing somewhere that a capacitor can interfere with a video signal. I mean, not burn out a VTX but I'm pretty sure that I heard that some people don't run capacitors because it interferes with video.... Maybe I'm remembering backward.

A cap is used to help clean up video noise and just noise in general from the system.

There was a period where we removed small capacitors from ESCs, not even sure I remember why, maybe for Dshot protocals or something.

(28-Aug-2019, 04:26 PM)Drone0fPrey Wrote: A cap is used to help clean up video noise and just noise in general from the system.

There was a period where we removed small capacitors from ESCs, not even sure I remember why, maybe for Dshot protocals or something.

The olden days (2-3 years ago) ESC used to come with Electrolytic caps. That got to bulky so they starting removing them. Then we realized that ESC without caps made too much noise and people starting putting them back. Everything goes in full circle.

But we did have to remove some SMD cap on the signal line to be able to flash blheli s for Dshot.

from the past aswell some lc-filters helped, there are some tiny ones from diatone. modern products own some lc-filters onboard; cams, vtxs and some voltage circuts for fpv gear on the fc.

(28-Aug-2019, 02:54 PM)bLoWsMokE Wrote: Is it possible you didn't get a low ESR capacitor? Also, and I'm not 100% sure about this but I think I remember hearing somewhere that a capacitor can interfere with a video signal. I mean, not burn out a VTX but I'm pretty sure that I heard that some people don't run capacitors because it interferes with video.... Maybe I'm remembering backward.

I'm betting that's a good possibility... The radio shack capacitor... I tried very hard to find out if it was low esr, and could not. I have some low esr type now, so I'll get rid of the radio shack one. Thanks for your reply /time

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(28-Aug-2019, 08:19 PM)hugnosed_bat Wrote: from the past aswell some lc-filters helped, there are some tiny ones from diatone. modern products own some lc-filters onboard; cams, vtxs and some voltage circuts for fpv gear on the fc.

Thank you sir!!

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(28-Aug-2019, 04:26 PM)Drone0fPrey Wrote: A cap is used to help clean up video noise and just noise in general from the system.

There was a period where we removed small capacitors from ESCs, not even sure I remember why, maybe for Dshot protocals or something.

Thank you also!!