Olias, I do feel your pain for all that is worth to you. About 10 years back, I was faced with a similar situation but was on the customer site doing a systems start-up and kept burning up small servo motors, that AB and everybody at the motion control division said was all my fault or was utterly impossible. Well, as luck would have it, the regional manager/engineering guy was on site one day when one of his little rare earth motors went up in the prettiest white cloud of smoke that you would ever want to see. He about panicked, since the machine was just sitting there doing nothing and all he could do is holler, "Hit the E-Stop, Hit the E-Stop." I just about fell on the floor laughing at this guys reaction. Needless to say hitting the E-Stop did not good, the motor was already toast by that time and he stood there just looking like he had seen a ghost. I said, "well, now you see what I have been dealing with for the last month". It was only a few weeks later that I got my final set of firmware chips for the GML computer/controller and the problem went away. Seems there was no motor problem, system design problem on my part, or any of the what if things we had all suspected. The firmware revisions had somehow put a bug in the computer that every once in a while the darn thing would over power the motors and it was always when they were just parked and not being commanded to move or anything. AB does not like to have to admit things like that, but they had to that time. But I do feel your pain, I really do!
