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Re: Victor Burnouts

We (one of our electrician mentors) reinspected the blown FETs and in our cases, the FETs shorted, which means it wasn't a case of one going then the others sharing current, etc. Something, and the backdriving or motor brush theory is a real possibility, causes all three in any one quadrant to blow simultaneously. We didn't notice any burn or flash marks, but that doesn't mean that it didn't happen.
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