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Unread 20-11-2012, 00:01
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Re: New Talon Speed Controller

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Originally Posted by Tom Line View Post
Today we retested the Talon with a fan on it. We hooked it up to 1 cim, 2 inputs, and ramped the amperage up. In this case, we had a borrowed Cross The Road engineer with a datalogger in-line with the input to the Talon, so we know exactly how much amperage we were running. We couldn't kill it. We ramped up to 74 amps continous (for an extended period). The silly thing just wouldn't die.
I'd be curious about this same test but with no fan. Did you happen to perform that at any point?
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