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    Quote Originally Posted by the great waldo View Post
    Hi
    Does the resitor in parallel with the caps alter the voltage coming into the controller whilst running the motors and controller at all? If so in which way?

    Cheers

    Andrew
    With an unregulated PSU, the bleed resistor will lower the terminal voltage slightly. Provided the PSU is specified sufficiently for the steppers then the resistor effect will be negligible.

    I'd be looking to dissipate 2->5W just to keep the temperature down and keep the costs low.

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