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Re: Damaged Spike

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Originally Posted by arizonafoxx View Post
I suspect the female pins for the signal cable inside the spike are widened out from all the years of use and could be fixed by pressing them back together, but that would require opening the spike and making modifications which would not be legal. The spike is now in the box of illegal practice parts and if we can fix it will be used as such.
[R58-M] Devices may be repaired, provided the performance and specifications of the component after the repair are identical to those before the repair.

New rule this year. You're allowed to repair broken electrical parts back to factory specs. I think it's thanks to the massive amounts of blown FTC motors last year.
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Originally Posted by NS_Radication View Post
Spike should be plugged into relay PWM section of the DSC. check if you have doe that because it is really IMPORTANT!!!
I think he already discovered and rectified that part of the problem.
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