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Re: Worst Decision of the Week!
Worst decision this year was definently a new one...
We had everything hooked up to our electronics, but the code was hung up. So, as our drive was working, we plugged the drive pwms into the shooter speed controller, and left others just dangling down on the vertical board.
This worked fine for a week, but then, I turned the thing on once, and a HUGE cloud of smoke came out from under the guard. More smoke than from a victor burnout. I thought I had somehow killed everything on the board, about 1000 dollars in speed controllers, and maybe the brain. As we examined closer, a pwm leads had draped across the power input to a victor, and burned all the insulation off of the common wire, back to the brain. So, back to panicking. The brain powered fine, but none of the pwm's would work. However, through the grace of god or something, after a code reload, all the pwm outs still worked.
Bottom line: Don't let pwms lay out. They conduct electricity or something...
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