Thread: Paul & Sabrina's cheap DIY 144v motor controller
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Old 10-19-2010, 06:00 PM   #3858 (permalink)
Greg Fordyce
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Hey Paul, I like the Oprah explanation of why you need capacitors. Another explanation is the wikipedia entry for a "Buck Converter". A motor controller is just a buck converter and wikipedia has lots of fancy equations to explain it.

Greg
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