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Message #12548



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Meabadboy@aol.com
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 20:33:02 +1000
Subject: Cap across the motor leads??



> In a message dated 3/26/2000 12:14:32 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> sparkyg@seark.net writes:
>
> << remember to tell him to put a .01uf cap across his motor leads. >>
>
> Hi,
>
> I know partially why you do this, noise, ect. ~ but the other day I tore
> apart a small toy airplane that the kids hve long sence quit playing with
for
> parts ~ the plane was in the shape of a f-15 and had a small gearbox with
a
> front and rear flashing lights ~
>
> Anyway the motor had a Resistor sodered to each post on the motor (22 ohm)
~
> but there was 3 caps sodered to the motor as follows:
>
> 1 cap was sodered between the posts of the motor had a #102 (small disk
cap).
> 2 caps were sodered with one of the leads to the case at a common point of
> the motor and one to each of the posts so that each post went to a common
> point of the metal case of the motor thru a #102 disk cap
>
> why did they do that? ~ is there a purpose to this???
>
> Steve
>

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