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Re: Victor motor contorls flashing orange

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Originally Posted by thvs View Post
Hi,
We have checked and everything seems to be in place. When we calibrate the controls they flash green for 2 seconds, then go back to flashing orange. I don't know if that means anything, but I was thinking that meant that there was nothing wrong with the wiring.

Also we got our robot to move by disabling the safety config in the program for the motor controls, However; I don't think that's the right answer.
That tells me the problem is in the code somewhere. Are you using LabVIEW? Are you periodically setting the motor value (i.e. every 100 ms or so)?