Victor 884 problem

[Jeff K.]

Originally Posted by patTeam241

Ahh, you released the magic smoke. Pretty much all you can do is move on and get new Vics. The 883 was the predecessor to the 884, and could only handle 30 amps (thus the 3). This is generally okay, but I'm guessing you hit a wall or turned real hard and drew a lot of power. In order to get a new 884, go to www.ifirobotics.com. Hope this helped (i've done it before). We've taken a few apart, the X is always there. I think that it's just markings from the factory.

Hey I know a place that can fix your victor if you really want to fix it instead of buying a new one
http://robotcombat.com/marketplace_repairs.html
It's for 80 bucks, not including shipping, but it's probably not worth it. It would be better to just buy new ones.

[Anthony Kesich]

I was told the reason FIRST went from 883s to 884s was a smaller "dead-zone." In the 883s, the dead zone was around 7% in each direction and in the 884s it was closer to 3%.

[ConKbot of Doom]

Yeah, victors don't like having things shorting out the FETs. In the 03 chesapeak regional. Someone dropped a screw into a vic and our genius head electrician said, its just a heatsink, its not live, leave it. Because we had a match like right then.

Well it was fine at first, but I guess the screw shook into a "better" position, and boy did the smoke pour out. The side of the victor was entirely melted, it melted part of our electronics box, and melted some wires. Some of you that were there probably remember this. They got out a fire extinguisher on our bot, it was that bad. We ended up having to rewire most of the electronics.

Moral of the day: There doesn't need to be anything else conductive inside the victors.