Magic Smoke and Shrapnel

[aaeamdar]

Originally Posted by pyro20911d

One of my predictions for this year's competition is that there may be a great deal of magic smoke as a result of high RPM motors stalling out, and mechanical parts exploding from strong centrifugal forces.

What do you think?

If you have some good pics of magic smoke in action, feel free to post them

We just had some magick smoke let out. We are trying to figure out why. I was the operator and aparently the hopper was smashing into some wires, and damaged the insulation enough so that... ooopps, black, red, power, ground, poof!

Thought I'd share the story since it happened 10 minutes ago as of now.

Two wires touched.

Paul Dennis

Originally Posted by aaeamdar

We just had some magick smoke let out. We are trying to figure out why. I was the operator and aparently the hopper was smashing into some wires, and damaged the insulation enough so that... ooopps, black, red, power, ground, poof!

Thought I'd share the story since it happened 10 minutes ago as of now.

Two wires touched.

Paul Dennis

This is the author of the original post...you wouldn't hapen to have a photo of the wires would you?...if so, please post it

[Bemis]

That happened to us two years back, except it was while bringing a mast down. wires crushed, scary sound, bad things. Don't think you were on the team then, Doug.

[Simon Strauss]

this year i learned that you can get magic smoke and a nice sized spark if you let the wires of a motor touch after they have been unplugged directly from your battery if the wheel they are spinning is still going fast enough. A logical occurrence if you look at it in retrospect but still quite scary and confusing when it first occurs.

[Wolf103FM]

the smell of burning rubber will be strong, from belts getting hot, or from us atleast