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Re: Victor motor contorls flashing orange
We had a similar problem with two Victors 884,s. They had been used on a practice bot this summer and worked OK. We tried multiple PWM cables driven by a cRIO, VEX and servo tester. In all cases we could substitute a servo for the Victor and it worked OK so we knew the signal was OK to the connector.

We removed the Victors and dissected each one. In both cases we found the problem was the PWM connector on the Victor. We also found a foreign substance on the contact blades. It looked like a glue or conformal coating.
To test we cleaned the three contact blades and attached the wires form a PWM cable. In both cases the controller came back to life.