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Originally Posted by Browzilla
Due to an oversight while doing some initial wiring, we accidentally hooked a Victor up red to black and vice versa. From all that I've heard and seen, it's now fried, right?
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Not necessarily. We did that a couple of years ago, and all it did was pull enough current to continually trip the 40A breaker protecting it. After we realized the mistake and corrected it, the Victor worked fine. I don't know the internal circuitry well enough to be sure, but I suspect there's a diode across the power pins to prevent a backwards connection from destroying the Victor.
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So a mentor was there, and he mentioned they could be repaired. Now, I'm just wondering. How would one go about repairing these? Is it worth the effort, or should we just buy another?
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The usual repair for a "fried" Victor is simply to replace the FETs. It's
definitely worth the effort -- you save a hundred dollars doing it that way instead of buying a new one.