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Originally Posted by Cory
If you're constantly burning up any electronics, I'd reassess your work practices.
Are you drilling over the robot? If so, are you covering your electronics with a towel or something else to prevent chips from falling in them?
Have you dropped screws, nuts, etc into the robot?
Have you used a compressed air line near the robot and potentially blown metal chips into it?
Victors don't just smoke themselves of their own accord, so there must be something that's user specific that is causing them to die.
As to what we've done, chips in the robot have caused problems before. A chip shorted out our RC and fried it in Hawaii last year. The program connector and power connectors have been sheared off the RC due to mishandling.
If you're careful with all of the electronic items we get in the kit, they should last you a long time, regardless of who made them.
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Last year we burnt out 2 or 3 victors between build season and four competitions. The compressed air and the holes were probably our weak points. We usually cover the electronics and hold a vacuum to the drill, but at a few points we may have gotten lazy. Sometimes the mentality spreads that all chips can simply be cleaned up later before we turn the robot on, but that clearly must be avoided.