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Re: Interesting victor failure
I had a Victor fail that way on our 2005 robot the day it went into the crate.

I had just opened the robotics room and had just powered up the system to check on work the kids had finished late the night before (okay, a couple of hours earlier).

It controlled a telescoping arm, so POP and the arm began extending on it's own.
Hit the Kill switch..it kept going.
Pulled the tether...it kept going.
Pulled the battery connection just in case the main breaker decided to fail on me too.
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