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Unread 08-10-2013, 19:36
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Re: Robot heart attack

So our problem has been resolved!

We did a lot of troubleshooting today, and after going through many of the electronic systems one at a time, we finally go to the point of switching out to our old Digital Sidecar. Once we switched to the old Sidecar, everything suddenly worked (sort of). A few tweaks to the wiring and some cleanup work, and the robot was working almost perfectly (just a pneumatics leak we intend to fix).

The Problem
The Digital Sidecar was broken. It didn't seem like it was, though. It gave us the lights we expected, but wouldn't delivier signals. Turns out the Voltage Regulator at Q1 was fried. I'll explain more in a little while.
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