Re: Who has released the Magic Smoke!!!
 

A thread from 5 years ago was revived and I'm not behind it? I never thought I'd live to see the day.

We've had magic smoke come out of every single robot component at once before. We were having serious problems before it happened for a few days. After a few seconds of magic, it all stopped, and everything worked perfectly from then on out. :confused:

Re: Who has released the Magic Smoke!!!
 

We released magic smoke from our banebot that was powering our ball lift at competition this year. Turns out a screw came loose and jammed itself in some polycarbonate. Cue magic smoke!
What was worse than releasing the smoke was taking off the still burning motor and replacing it in time for our next match, which was only 10 minutes away.

Re: Who has released the Magic Smoke!!!
 

Since the thread is from 5 years ago, I think 2011 is fair game still. Last year's bot was actually named Magic, so we ended up naming the minibot Smoke (in general; each individual minibot was named after the Beatles) mainly because of what happened to the M&Ms at Lone Star with their magic smoke and our minibot. Also, slightly unrelated, but we lit a kitbot on fire once. That's an entirely different flavor of magic smoke right there. One of the Victor heat sinks was badly chipped and the Victor decided to spontaneously combust.

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I had some magic smoke released on a piece of equipment I was working on. I'd seen wisps here and there for a while, then one day I saw a largish plume. My dad says he saw flame; I didn't as I was too busy going after the stop button on the controls, which cut off the power to that circuit. Next step: lock-out, tag-out the machine until the part could be replaced.

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If you haven't released the magic smoke, you just aren't trying hard enough!

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They don't call our team Fondy Fire for nothing. We do more than just build smoking robots!

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I blew up a victor and a PWM cable 20 minutes before bag time in 2011 :eek:

And the electrical board that year was buried.

Re: Who has released the Magic Smoke!!!