Automatic Power

[Swampcoder2]

Over the past week, we've been test driving our chassis. The electronics module is pre-wired and self-contained. The battery is mounted to the chassis. We added the module to the chassis, connected the motor wires through a terminal strip and connected the battery via the supplied QD connectors. The 120A circuit breaker, fuse panel and electronics are wired as outlined in the wiring diagram.

The cool thing is, we drove around fine, set the chassis up on a table to check a few things and while we're talking and pointing out something, I feel air blowing on my arm... Confused, I look over to see the Victor fans are running, their LED's are on... I continue looking around the module and notice the spikes are on, the RC is running, the fuse panel LED is on, the whole electrical system is running - I check the 120A breaker and it's OFF!!!?? I quickly try to trip the breaker but nothing happens, I cycled the breaker and it stayed on... finally, I disconnected the battery and the power turned off.

Our robot is possessed!! I plugged the battery back up a little later and the breaker functioned as normal. Later that day or the next day, the same thing happened. We've been running without incident the past few days.

Has anyone experienced this? I think there is an evil gremlin in our breaker.