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Re: [DFTF] Jags v. Vics...

We were able to repetitively fault out the Jaguars on our Lunacy shooter. Part of the spin-up process backed up the shooter wheel and feed conveyor (to get any moon rocks out of it), stopped the feed conveyor, spun up the drum, then fed the conveyor forward. This reverse/forward slam of a 6" diameter 24" long drum geared like 5:1 off a CIM was enough to fault the Jaguars on a battery that wasn't fully charged (e.g. 5 minutes into a demo, it would fail). If we had significant load on the drivetrain (any non-lunacy wheel), this time would have been very very short.

We haven't used Jaguars since the grey ones. We blew up quite a few that year, and combined with the overactive faults, were turned away.

That said, I have heard that the new black ones don't blow up as much as the grey ones.
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