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Re: anyother robots smoke up?

I have personally managed to short 5 volts to ground through one of our cameras for several seconds with no breaker and no magic smoke resulting. And since the power for the camera comes from the 7.2V backup battery, I'm doubting this could've been the source of all the current to burn up a PWM. Perhaps I'll rig up something with an old battery and see how much damage it can do shorted to ground through a PWM. It'd be an odd precedent to set, being the first team to prove we need breakers for servos and the camera.
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