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burning smells are not usually good
Posted by Joe Ross at 2/16/2001 4:43 AM EST
Engineer on team #330, Beach Bot, from Hope Chapel Academy and NASA/JPL , J&F Machine, and Raytheon.
In Reply to: Rookie Question. double solenoids...
Posted by Anton Abaya on 2/16/2001 1:44 AM EST:
: we are trying to hook up the double solenoid to ONE Spike. i dont know electrical stuff (deprived i know) and let some1 else do it (for once). we tried it and we smelt something burning (on the solenoid) so we turned it off.
: we did it exactly the way the manual says we should do it with the diodes and all....
: did anyone else do this? or should i just go get a darn spike?
: and if i just use another spike, can i use last year's?
I'm not sure what you might have done ;-) My first thought was that you inserted a diode backwards, but if that were the case the solenoid probably wouldn't have worked, but shouldn't have burned. There was probably a short somewhere, thats the only thing that I can think of that might cause burning.
The simplest solution (unless you want to try it with the diodes again) would be to use 2 spikes. You are allowed to use spikes from last year. This does assume that the double solenoid still works.
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