[jp1247]

The Jag worked all of last year, and was pulled off and immediately put on this years chassis.Worked flawlessly Saturday, and died halfway through Sunday.

The mention of ESD makes me remember another student talking about static, was was complaining of it when he touched the chassis. Same student was reinstalling pwm cables after putting them in wire harnesses.

Might be onto something?

And I may have been mistaken but i think i recall a bit of water, might have just been a shadow or w/e (i doubt it was water, i'm ocd about liquid near the robot) around the brake coast,encoder, limit switch pins. Could that be a low enough resistance short to pop the diodes?

Can the diodes be tested in circuit?