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Re: 110V AC to 12V DC suggestion

If one looks back at the problems the tan jag had. One of them was that running them on a stiff bench power supply would kill them fast. While the BLDC24 is more rugged all motor controllers can be damaged by running them on a ac to dc switching power supply. The problem is the switching transients and back EMF can cause the switching regulator to output some high short term voltages that can go above the voltage rating of the controller components. Motor controllers and big motor currents and ac switching power supplies are a bad idea.