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Re: Problem with Victors
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Originally Posted by eagle33199
We finally managed to get them all working. I can't tell you the number of times we unplugged them and plugged them back in, with no change. Finally we took one off and hooked it up to the working robot... And it worked! That really made us scratch our heads - especially when we went back to the otter robot and it stopped working!
In the end, we discovered that we were completely setting them wrong - the pins were completed missing the receptacle in the housing, and sliding along the side instead of into the contacts. So we could push them in as firmly as we wanted, and wiggle them forever - they would never be able to touch the contacts. So if you ever have this problem, be careful inserting the PWM's! If you wiggle it before engaging the pins, you can feel the lip of the contacts, and see exactly how easy it is to miss them!
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Those things are legendary for disagreeing with PWM cable placement. some days I think they were actually alive and actively dodging the pins!
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Matt Krass
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I'm a FIRST relic of sorts, I remember when we used PBASIC and we got CH Flightsticks in the KoP. In my day we didn't have motorized carts, we pushed our robots uphill, both ways! (Houston 2003!)
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