Thread: Victor 884 won't go forward
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Unread 21-10-2005, 08:44
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Re: Victor 884 won't go forward
I also second the statement about the fact that Victors seem to be extremely reliable. I've been working with them since they existed and haven't seen too many fail. I should say that there's a cavaet with the extremely reliable line: it was that way until this year.

Perhaps it was simply coincidence, but it seems that the quality of IFI products decreased this year. I did see a speed controller with exactly the same failure characteristics you're noticing. This was at a competition and we asked the IFI personell about it; they thought that some of the FETs were dead. There weren't any metal shavings or anything else to indicate why it had failed. I think you just have a dead speed controller and need to swap in a replacement.

Matt