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Re: Jaguars failing
That figure of 88, EVEN if its accurate as to the number of units that LM/TI received back still doesnt really tell us anything.
There are LOTS of teams, i'm sure, who just had one blow up and never thought to contact LM/TI.
I know 1075 used 6 jags on our 2009 bot, and we had no fewer than 2 jags fail on us. Both in the same way, a plume of smoke and upon closer inspection, toasted FETs. We're very careful about filings getting into speed controllers, over the years we toasted a few Victors... including an entire robot's worth of electronics when the ground clip fell off the robot during welding. Ever since then welding is done without electronics on the bot.
My count says 2/8, thats a 25% failure rate. There seems to be no shortage of the well known names around here with similar numbers. That sort of leads me to believe that the numbers are bigger than it would seem from what LM/TI tells us.
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