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Unread 28-01-2012, 20:56
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Re: Banebots RS-775 Case Short

Eric,
The PD is very well designed and works very well. Without any valid data I cannot tell you which trips first since the effect is the same, that is Crio reboot. With the relatively low impedance of the motor wiring back to the PD compared to the higher impedance of the Crio power wiring, it would appear that the majority of the fault current would flow back through the motor wirin when we first observed this fault, we were prototyping with a small motor that we had removed from a battery operated vacuum. The motor case was intentionally wired to one of the wires. I don't think the motor drew more that 10 amps.
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