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Re: Victor 888 "y" cable issues

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Originally Posted by theawesome1730 View Post
I tested for shorts as I made the y cable myself. none were found and our victors returned to normal when running by themselves, just together on the y cable seems to make them malfunction. We did finally get 2 888s to work on a y cable together. So I'm thinking that we have a bunch of faulty 888s
Have you changed sidecars? I remember reading somewhere that victors due draw more current from the PWM cables than the Jaguars do. If for some reason your sidecar isn't buffering the PWM signals properly it could not be giving enough current.
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