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Unread 21-12-2006, 00:16
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Re: Wow, wouldn't want this to happen..

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Originally Posted by Adam Y. View Post
Its very easy to do. The capacitor in the middle of the victor is electrolyitic which blows up if you hook the power up backwards or hook the power up to the motor. Its rather quite spectacular. Not to mention the fact that the Mosfets themselves are very fragile to static shocks.
I did that once. Made the machine shop smell real bad, as Dillon probably remembers...
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