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Re: Robot Losing Communication when strafing right

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Originally Posted by Joe Ross View Post
I suspect that your digital sidecar isn't properly powered. It gets some power through the DB-37 cable, but not enough to send a full speed PWM to 4 motors. Assuming that your right motors are inverted in code, a left turn is minimum PWM to all motors and a right turn is full PWM to all motors.

Disconnect the DB-37 cable from the digital sidecar and make sure that all 3 power LEDs are brightly lit.

Have you solved your mechanical problems from your previous thread?
Okay, Tuesdays and Thursdays are days left for labor intensive homework so no we have not solved the mechanical issues yet. The mechanical one is harder to fix than the wiring one so we will try the wiring tomorrow after school gets out. Thank you!

As to luckof13, yes the voltage regulator is correct, the voltage drops from ~12.43ish to ~11.5ish then spikes back up to the original voltage.
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