They might be able to take a hit or two but they would definitely explode when with sufficient contact with electricity. Perhaps this was to make sure that the minions were not wasted against their opponents and there was this last 'death stand' if they were unable to perform their job.
It was no wonder Sir Necromechanoid did say that the powers that Jin used were a double edge sword mainly because it could be beneficial to him or to the Necromechanoid, likewise, disrupting the both of them as well.
When Jin took a quick peek at Yinn, she was not in the best of conditions. She might be putting out all these fabulous changes to the reality of those who were in it, but her processing had not reached a point where she could optimise all these modules properly and thus this took quite a lot of power from her.
