Warning about using VRM and LED lights

[top.jek]

I'm with team 4593 and I just wanted to say that I experienced an unpleasant surprise this weekend when I plugged in the LED tape to the 12v 2amp channels. They must have drawn enough current to burn out the regulator without blowing the fuse on the pdp. I was foolish enough to do this twice, thinking that the first VRM had just been a dud, so now I know that it was the LEDs that caused the damage. Our team now has two dead VRMs. If any of you guys want to use LED tape on your robots (it looks really good in my opinion and you can pick some up cheap on amazon), plug the leads directly into the pdp; the same channels used to bring power to the VRM work perfectly. Huge shootout to 801 for loaning us a spare VRM so that we could function in the tournament!