Thread: Motor balancing (encoders?)
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Unread 30-01-2011, 17:50
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Re: Motor balancing (encoders?)
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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
This is not physically possible. The Brake/Coast selection is made by installing a jumper between either the first and second or the second and third pins of a three-pin header.

If you did manage to connect both the Brake and Jumper pins to the control pin at the same time, you would short out the Victor's 5 volt power.



It sounds like one Victor was set to Brake and another was set to Coast.
I guess that was it. I never actually looked at the victors; the electronics guy told me that.
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