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Re: blog; Motor Controller Options for 2015

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Originally Posted by FrankJ View Post
In my opinion, the spike is only useful for the compressor where you are allowed a self resetting breaker & very small motors like a window motors. With the mid size & larger motors, the least stall will blow the fuse.
With the 2015 control system, the Pneumatics Control Module (PCM) drives the compressor directly. That accounts for 90% of the uses of spikes we've had over the years.
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