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Re: Suicide Cables Safe for Motors?

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Originally Posted by Seth Mallory View Post
GRT takes the motors of 12 volt drills and install leads with Anderson connectors. You can add a fuse to both leads. This gives you a variable voltage reversible polarity power source. We we test motors and mechanisms with this. We have Y cables and can run one side of our drive train with them. One of the advantages of this design is if a mechanism is binding it will not break due to the low power output.
My team made a video a few years ago on how to make one of these. https://youtu.be/3q4nHCzSer0
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