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Re: Could a magnetic field around CIMs cause fuses to blow?

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
If you remove the fuse for the wrong-sided motor, that motor will be turned by the other one on the same gearbox, and you'll end up with the Victor getting powered by the generated current....

Since you insist your wiring is correct, your software is at fault, but it'll probably be easier to correct the problem by changing which pwm outputs your Victors are plugged into.
We removed the fuse for both moters on the one side. Somehow, the victors, suposedly disconnected from anthing when we removed the fuses, would still work when the other side, still connected, went. In testing the connections this morning, I saw that all of the reds were connected somewere. Looking at the wireing revieled that it looked OK. The wires arn't grounded to the frame or anything else. Black wires were connected to themselves but the Black and Red wires were isolated from each other and the frame.

Uh.. Should I be getting contentutiy through the breaker Panel with fuses out? I put one lead on the battery termainal and the other on a termainal for the moters. The resistance was great but I though it should be infinate.
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