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Re: Interesting victor failure
Wow! Although we let the magic smoke out of a Victor in our first year (late night, hooked the input leads up backwards) we've used... well... a couple of dozen of them by now and never had anything like what you have described happen.

I've heard of them blowing when metal shavings fall into them from above during repairs and aren't noticed before power-up (hint: cover your Victors when working from above) but have not heard of the "locked on" state that you describe.

I guess that given that something like 6,000 victors were sent to teams all over the world this year that it is possible that you got a bad one, but I wouldn't be surprised if IFI wanted to take a look at the dead one to figure out how it ended up in such a dangerous failure mode.

I hope you are able to replace it and carry on with your testing without too much lost progress.

Jason