Thread: Speed Controllers are Confused
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Re: Speed Controllers are Confused
I suspect you may find that you need to calibrate your victor. Neutral is ON solid, so if the LED is off, I suspect you are seeing a forward command at the output of the victor, but not full forward due to a calibration issue. We found that on the Victor 888's it was necessary to calibrate many of them. We rarely saw that issue on the 884's, but we did a couple times.

Check the controller output with a multimeter to see if it is, indeed, changing the output voltage. It doesn't make sense that it would change between laptops, but who knows.