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Re: The Magic Smoke...

At first we didn't use muffin fans on our drill motors. So when running some practice, we got some magic smoke. Caught it in time and didn't damage the motors (Thank God). But we changed the blue wires on the drill motors, because we thought they were too thin. THE NEXT DAY FIRST sends out an update warning not to do that. So we switched them back. But we've had no problems with them since then.

We did have a wire crossed on a speed controller, and totally smoked the fan on the speed controller. It looked pretty cool toasted.

Then we used too-thin-gauge wire for our double solenoid. I heard that smoked nicely too.

Sadly, I was not present for either of these wire smokings.
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