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Originally Posted by FlyingDutchman
why dont you just blow the stuff up if your not going to wire it right
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We've had numerous Victors go bad over the years and release magic smoke for no apparent reason. In 2004 we had a case where we heard a pop, smelled magic smoke, saw a spark, but everything seemed to work. (we later discovered that we had only destroyed one of the three transistors)
Be careful mounting components near your metal frame - the frames tend to build up quite a bit of static charge, and FIRST doesn't like people to ground their frames, in order to cut down on shorts. We believe static discharge from the frame into a Victor caused the mysterious spark.