Re: Sparrow Problems

[RichSJ@aol.com]

Rich Rudman wrote:

>DON'T EVER
>throw the direction contactor under any power levels other than slow
>crawl. Interlocks and testing that you can't do this is the solution. 
>Rich Brown.... wanna do a full power reverse... on twin 1200 Raptors...
>and then click to A head Warp factor 9???? have your medical insurance
>paid up please. Then again...us EV racers... know darn well not to even
>try this. It gets to expensive.

No thanks...my warranty (not the controller) was toasted the first time I 
reported this trick to the list. Scared hell out of me (almost) at 15-20 mph 
going forward. I can do over a 100 in reverse - hit the direction contactors 
at that speed - oh $#@%!!!  Dualin'7 doin' cartwheels from here to Woodburn.  
Even this racer doesn't have that much insurance. Too much time and money 
spent on the car already. I did, eventually, pay for that first "power" stop. 
Just not right away. Sometimes silicon just weakens...then bites you when 
your not expecting it to.


Rich Brown
San Jose, CA
Dualin'7  with two very solid DCPs under the hood and no controller problems