[tux]

Our drive system uses only 2 CIM motors (we are using the other 2 CIMs on our shooter and ball pick up mechanism). All motors (5) are using Jaguar speed controllers.

On our 1st test drive everything was working pretty well, though I did notice it was not easy to rotate the (6-wheel drive) robot. It was necessary to get a bit of movement forward or back before turning was possible.

After some more work, our 2nd test session ended with both drive jaguars showing slow-flashing red.

My theory is that the jaguars were damaged by pushing the unpowered robot around on its wheels with the jaguars still connected. Team members report seeing the lights on the jaguars lighting up while they were pushing it around.

Anyhow, it's all bagged up now, but I need to figure out what to do when we get to the competition. I think the next step to correct the problem is to swap out the speed controllers. Hopefully that will fix it.

We don't have any more jaguars, but we have a bunch of victors.

We're not using CAN bus, or any special jaguar features.

So... should we rearrange so that we have jaguars on the drive, or just put victors in for the (presumed) damaged jaguars?

Also, is my theory of how the jaguars were damaged a reasonable or probable one?