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Re: Who wants pics from Midwest?

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Originally Posted by DB_UPS View Post
what the story behind that anyways?
The short occured at one of our front ultrasonic sensors. The sensor was connected with relatively thin PWM wire, so the thin gauge had a lot of quick smoke/flame but went out just as quickly. The thing that made it look so bad was our electronics/guts cover...

Since most of that pwm wire was bundled under the cover, it made a ton of smoke inside which slowly was blown out a hole in the forward stiffener box by the victor fans and just convection in general... making the smoke seem to continue to pour out while it had already stopped.

So... I guess the ultrasonics ended up being un-safety sensors...

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