Originally Posted by
awerby
It turned out to be a capacitor blowing up on the G320; I'd used a small 470mh cap plugged into the Gecko, and for some reason it took this opportunity to kick the bucket. I'm left wondering what went wrong, and how to fix it.
Electrolytic Capacitors especially are very voltage conscious, it sounds like you exceeded the rating, go at least 10%-20% above the voltage you are using, if the cap is in circuit that receives back EMF from the motor, then 20% min. I would suggest.
Did you mean 470µf?
Al.
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