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0 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
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388 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.
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12 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.
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50 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.
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101 28-Aug-2019, 08:19 PM (This post was last modified: 28-Aug-2019, 08:20 PM by hugnosed_bat.) 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.