Thread: Digital Sidecar D-I/O's causing connection problems to Motors
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Unread 21-03-2011, 21:38
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Digital Sidecar D-I/O's causing connection problems to Motors
Today we happened upon a problem caused by the Digital I/O prongs to the line sensors (although equally possible that is could have been 2 other non-drive motors in the PWM prongs). The only reason I suspect the line sensors is that the area next to them on the sidecar must have been at least 30 degrees hotter than the surrounding plastic. The problem caused by this was that we would have connection to the camera, cRIO, code ect. but we couldn't control the robot (as in there was no info sent to the drive motor's jaguars). To solve this, what we did was unplug all cords from the sidecar and leave only the drive motor PWM's in their slots.

Could this be caused by a bad sidecar, or possibly outputs from the line sensors?
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