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Unread 28-03-2004, 17:44
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Re: The Magic Smoke...

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We tried hard not to smoke our motors this year, however, the smell of burnt plastic started emulating from one of the speed controlers that was an expensive mistake.
that happened to us the night before we had to ship plus we've had a some more of that at competitions...

and no one can forget when we used too thin gauge wire when testing our winch...that made some nice smoke out of the wires in our school's commons at like 3:00 am...at least no smoke alarms went off
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Re: The Magic Smoke...

magic smoke is great, my team over the past few years has smoked many a motor.

drill motor have come and gone quite often, though not too much smoke. servos, when you add WAY too much ampage to them, make a rather acrid magic smoke.

though my all time favorite would have to be accidentally putting power to both sides of a speed controller. it was a victor 884. at first the LED flashed from red to green, kind of slowly. then it sped up, going faster and faster until it held at a steady red and sparks shot up out of the muffin fan. expensive mistake, but it was pretty and dangerous at the same time, which is part of what FIRST is to me, having fun with things you would normally never be exposed to.
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Re: The Magic Smoke...

*sniiiiif* magic smoke.....

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Re: The Magic Smoke...

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magic smoke is great, my team over the past few years has smoked many a motor.

drill motor have come and gone quite often, though not too much smoke. servos, when you add WAY too much ampage to them, make a rather acrid magic smoke.

though my all time favorite would have to be accidentally putting power to both sides of a speed controller. it was a victor 884. at first the LED flashed from red to green, kind of slowly. then it sped up, going faster and faster until it held at a steady red and sparks shot up out of the muffin fan. expensive mistake, but it was pretty and dangerous at the same time, which is part of what FIRST is to me, having fun with things you would normally never be exposed to.


so that's why your robot did so well??!!?!
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Re: The Magic Smoke...

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so that's why your robot did so well??!!?!
depends upon how you look at it.

i mean, in a sense, doing stupid things from time to time to find out what not to do is helpful. but as for doing well this year, i think that is just because we were lucky enough to come up with a great robot, a drive team that is excellent, and a pit crew good enough to keep it running, programmers to help with the autonomous (have to seriously thank the few who learned C in a matter of weeks to help with it), and so on, the list could go on forever, sponsers, engineers, machinists, it goes on and on...
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