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Re: 3 Fried Side Cars

A,
If you take a sharp utility knife you can cut the ribbon cable flush with the IDC connector. Once you cut it, you have to check that no adjacent conductors are exposed or touching other wires in the ribbon. A sharp blade will usually give you no problem. After that, no insulation is needed.

Re: 3 Fried Side Cars

We'll definitely do that for our next ribbon cable.
Thanks.:]

Re: 3 Fried Side Cars

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Originally Posted by acastagna (Post 1220020)

Problem sovled. Thank you to everyone who provided input. The issue was definitely ribbon contact with the solenoid board. Opening up the three side cars revlealed the same chip (U2) was burned. We did some testing and found that only a very light pressure was needed to make electrical contact with the cut end of a ribbon cable, which would send 24 volts into the side car. We tried the ribbon flush and taped the end with electrical tape, and everything works fine with a new side car. Luckily nothing else appears damaged.

So, the lesson learned is secure all possible points of electric contact.

Dont you have those little blue plastic covers that go over the solenoid breakout and analog modules???