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Ben Blaukopf

wrote:
It's not a dead short - it's 43ohms.

Fit a heatsink and let it dissipate 1.5KW

That's the other puzzling thing. I powered up the circuit, expecting the
crimp to get very hot very quickly. It didn't.

But it is definitely the crimp that's the problem. I chopped it out
without disturbing anything else - problem solved, on both sides of the
break.