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Re: What do you think of the jaguars?

We managed to kill 4 the same way on out test bot. Basically, you need to make sure that it is not getting power from the motor when there is no power from the battery. We had our gearboxes set up with 2 cims each. When we wanted to test with only one cim per side, we just removed the power from the jaguar and not the motor. The unpowered motor acted like a generator and put a current back into the speed controller. It killed a tiny resistor at R5.
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