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Re: Why not integrate Jaguars with Diodes?

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Originally Posted by Sammy 3278 View Post
We replaced the colored screws with all silver so that people won't assume black means negative and red means positive and will look at the molding on the speed control instead. Has been working so far. We had also toyed with the idea of using red and black nail polish on the speed control.
not a bad idea...

during my days as a student electronic lead I never had a jaguar die... in fact, I event was able to revive a few "dead" ones from the season before by opening them and cleaning out any aluminum swarf that had shorted them in the past... I guess I got REALLY lucky (now you see why I liked CAN so much).

also, we only used fork terminals for the Jags... if we had to use a ring I would cut part of it into a fork (until we could get more fork terminals). if the screws never come out, then problem solved

Even if you do use ring terminals, my advice would be to work one screw at a time. that also would eliminate the chance of mixing them up...
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