Victors not working

[cooltext]

So we have a huge problem. Our victors and motors don't work. first of all when we Initially start the robot a victor plugged into that's not even in loaded or initialized in the code starts to run. Secondly the victors only work when they are part of a RobotDrive object, so we can't control the victors individually and only ports 1-4 of our digital sidecar work. Then if we try to control a victor plugged into ports 1 2 3 or 4; the only ports that appear to work, I can't control them manually unless they are part of a Robotdrive object. I know that this isn't a software problem, nor is there any problem in a crio or sidecar as we have switched the old sidecar and crio with our current ones and this issue still occurs. Any ideas would be appreciated.

thanks.

[joelg236]

I would ensure you have the power wired correctly to the digital sidecar. This is a common problem that teams unknowingly find themselves facing. Other than that, I would strip down your code and try to declare victors under the jaguar class and vice-versa (I know, its strange, but sometimes it works). I hope your robot gets better, don't want to lose some competition :p

[DonRotolo]

Yes, verify 12 volts is coming in to the sidecar, all 3 power LEDs are glowing green, and your 37-pin cable is wired properly (search "rework" in this forum and read).

[ProgrammerMatt]

The ribbon cable that came in the KOP is incorrect.. Make sure the cable going from cRIO > Sidecar is a cross over we had the same issue with the same result. and we found this out.