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Re: Where did all the magic smoke go?

We smoked a Victor this year just before the robot shipped, but didn't realize it (anonymous pop, no traces).

At Kettering we tried debugging a problem with our arm: the Victor showed red/orange/green like it should when the controller told it to go up/neutral/down, but the arm only worked in one direction. We tried replacing the arm motor, debugging the software, etc. but nothing showed up.

Apparently a couple of somethings (diodes or capacs, don't remember) on the Victor had popped, and finally one of our team members figured it out (I wasn't there so I don't know exactly how).
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