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Re: How behind are we?

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Originally Posted by Hawiian Cadder View Post
our drive doesn't work, we cannot get communication, CAN has yet to be tested, all the motors are pulsing back and forth rather than spinning in one direction, and it still cannot turn. i think we will be OK, mainly because the Programmers have the actual robot now to work with, and they are hopefully pretty smart.
I think I know what's wrong with your motors, as we had a similar problem before. The motors seemed to be spinning randomly because we wired the input of the motor controllers to the motors and the output of the controllers to the power board. Check to see of your wires are switched around.
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