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[HELP] Digital Sidecar troubles
We've managed to isolate our problem to our sidecar. After that, our team is completely lost as to what the problem is. We've switched through some sidecars but none seem to work, so it may be something wrong with the set up. Nothing electrically has changed between when we last competed, CTTD 11/3/12, and now. Our sidecar is set up, but suddenly the 5v and battery light are spazzing out. As well, we only sporadically get power to the RSL. Any suggestions? The lights are fine when we're disabled, but once we enable then all the spastic problems start happening. We've gone through and checked for shorts, but didn't find any.
EDIT: Also, we're getting a high pitched whine from the PDB...any ideas on that, and if it's an issue? We do have a replacement PDB but we'd rather not have to replace it if we don't have to.
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Last edited by CalTran : 26-11-2012 at 14:29.
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