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Re: Victor 888 "y" cable issues

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Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV View Post
Alright, so I maybe I spoke to soon. We finally wired the real robot this evening and guess what happened to our lift side Y cabled victors. High pitch noise, trying to move but not at full speed. We had to take it off the Y cable for our demonstration. Switched to the Y-cable we have on the practice robot and it still has the problem. Haven't had to much time to diagnose. One side is working fine with the Y cable to other is not.
Sounds exactly like what we had happen. Did you test the Victors by themselves later on? We set aside all the ones we thought we might have damaged so we can test them after stop build to see if they were faulty or if we were doing something wrong.
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