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Re: A very weird digital sidecar problem...

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The very first thing you need to ask is: "What changed between yesterday and today?
This was literally a question of "it worked last night, we turned it on and went out to the field and it stopped working halfway through a match".

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Something must have changed.
Indeed. Whatever it was, we can't find it.

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Start by plugging in one encoder at a time.
Did that. Both do it. ...and they do it if they're new or old encoders, new or old cables, old or new sidecars, and old or new DIO ports... All with new or old sidecar-to-bumper cables and new or old CRIo bumpers.

We unplug the encoders, everything else works fine. We can't seem to even come up with something else to check.
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