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Re: HELP! Cow Town ThrowDown Partcipation in Jeopardy!

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Originally Posted by baronep View Post
I would try unplugging everything, from the cRIO to the motor and try brand new components where you can and hopefully in reassembling them you will fix the problem. It also is possible that you have multiple faulty PWM cables. I don't know why but it always seems that we have more that don't work than do work. Also, with the blinking light on the victor, it doesn't change color or pattern when you ENABLE/DISABLE the robot from the driver station right? If it does, it means that the PWM is not the problem, but overcurrenting or something else is going on.
The blinking light on the Victor doesn't change color or pattern when we ENABLE/DISABLE the robot, it blinks at the same rate. However, we did rewire and put together a seperate PD and when we ENABLED the Victors that were plugged into it, they briefly turn red when we ENABLE.

As for your first idea of unplugging and putting in brand new components, we are planning on doing this as a last resort if we cannot troubleshoot and eliminate the problem.
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