Thread: Where did all the magic smoke go?
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Unread 26-02-2008, 01:16
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Re: Where did all the magic smoke go?
We let the magic smoke out of a black serial cable last year. The positive lead from the battery got disconnected from the terminal block and contacted the chassis. The serial cable was plugged into the program port of the RC, and the end touched the chassis. Dead short through the RC ground on the program port. The cable started smoking like crazy, but somehow the RC survived fully functional.
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