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Anyways, at this point Karl noticed one of the observers (Spencer Berglund) hanging out by our car, and since he wasn't our observer at the time, Karl asked if he knew anything about Motor Controllers. Turns out, that was probably the smartest thing that we did all race. He took a look at our Tritium WaveSculptor 20 configuration, and immediately, he pointed out that the RMS Peak motor current maximum on them was rated for 100A, with a peak current of 122A, but we had set it to 130A. Motor impedance will limit the current at higher speeds, which limits the bus current. He suspected that although we weren't pulling anything near that, flashing a value outside of the valid range of operating values was causing them to fault, since they would hit the hard limit first.
Spencer also suggested that we run PhasorSense and ParamExtract, and since we didn't have anything to lose, we did.

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